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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 23:13:38 JST Mrs Cloudy

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   • Lucy Wallace

   @Snoweider Locals who would challenge the "wild" narrative already know the truth. The population of the Highlands is still falling. That's a bigger issue than being misunderstood by the metropolitan media, I would have thought.

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     Lucy Wallace (snoweider@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 23:13:39 JST Lucy Wallace

     "Popular media and travel writers have presented Scotland’s Highlands and Islands as a 'romantic wilderness' or 'people-less paradise' for centuries" 🖋️

     But Eddie Stewart FSAScot, PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow, believes that "through archaeology, we can challenge the use of imagined ‘wild’ pasts and understand that this ‘emptiness’ is a modern phenomenon":

     #Scotland
     #Archaeology
     https://www.digitscotland.com/a-people-less-paradise-what-archaeology-tells-us-about-the-climate-crisis-and-the-emptiness-of-scotlands-highlands-and-islands/
     https://www.digitscotland.com/a-people-less-paradise-what-archaeology-tells-us-about-the-climate-crisis-and-the-emptiness-of-scotlands-highlands-and-islands/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2wet9ljXunMuM7yN3sdIe6Fsx7xQVF26J3nHPMlu6r2ztWAYCp6u6X-iA_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw