Can You Imagine Manhattan Before The European Hordes?
"In this week’s issue, Nick Paumgarten writes about Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society who is trying to determine exactly how Manhattan—or Mannahatta, 'land of many hills,' as some scholars have translated the name used by the Lenape people who inhabited it—looked before the arrival of Europeans.
"The project is set for completion in 2009, the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s 1609 visit to the island, and will include a coffee-table book, interactive exhibits, a series of printed street guides, and a three-dimensional virtual re-creation. Here is a portfolio of images from the project thus far, including the maps that inspired it and new computer-generated illustrations of the hills and forests that once covered the island.
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