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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 429863" data-attributes="member: 4720">Specifically, I was dealing with the Celts later, when they were largely overrun, and from which time we actually have some historic data on them.  They were not practicing the large scale, land depleting, monoculture cultivation that, for example, the Romans were.They did cut down plenty of trees, but they didn't take out entire forests in order to plant grain, as far as I know.  Lumber may have been an infinite resource, because their population density was so low.  And they also did not tend their crops to the extent that others did.  It was often- plant, leave it alone to grow for a few months while we beat up the neighboring clan and steal cattle, come back and harvest.A lot of their tech was liberated from other sources, by the way.  They became incredibly gifted craftsmen, but the fact remains that they didn't really have any cultural need for, for example, metallurgy.  They made great refinements in working with gold, but they didn't originate the practice.I was comparing their agricultural practices and reverence for nature, favorably,  to that of some Native American groups.  Notably the more settled ones in the Mississippi Valley.  Of course, it's hard to make solid comparisons, because we know so little about both groups.  The Celts weren't recording history until after they were conquered (and then it was deliberately skewed), and that particular Native American civilization was destroyed by disease before Europeans got to the area.</blockquote>

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