Abstract
The author proposes that seventeenth-century Finnish settlers of the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River made some fundamental contributions to the forest colonization system utilized in the successful and rapid occupance of the eastern woodlands of North America. Such influence is selectively demonstrated in material artifacts, particularly folk architecture, carpentry, and fence building. The proposed explanatory mechanism the cultural ecological concept of preadaptation permits an understanding of how a small group of early settlers could instruct an emerging nation of pioneers in the techniques of forest colonization.
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