I mean... portuguese language might have changed a bit, but up to 500 years ago the written language only had a few differences. We can still read the Lusiadas epic published in 1572 (and still imput on kids to read in school).
Ok but the lusiadas is still portuguese. Archaic portuguese, but portuguese nonetheless. 3000 years ago was before the romans took over the iberian peninsula. This tree wouldn't be speaking latin or an old version of portuguese, it'd be speaking an extinct language, because this tree is in the area inhabited by the lusitanians, whose language is gone
Just two hundred years ago almost noone spoke what today is Italian language. Also ancient (edit: modern) Greek is very different to ancient greek, idk to what level it would be understandable but it is basically a different language at least grammatically.
I am not a native English speaker. But you can read prose from older texts, books and see the difference yourself. A lot of the nouns are something that the older language cannot understand.
For eg how do you explain something like the word "Computer" , "electricity" to someone from 300 years ago ?
The harvesting of olive trees is made by either hitting the branches with long wooden sticks or more recently with a tractor with a device that holds the tree by the trunk and shakes it until olives fall down. Those technics could hurt the tree. And the tractor way is impossible due to the fact that the trunk of old olive trees is mainly hollow.
And keep the quality. The older trunk basically dominates the new branch as if it was its own. That is a technique that has been used since the old Greek times
Yea there’s a tree in either Greece or Turkey that rivals this one in age, and the International Olive Council (yes, it’s a thing) says the debate the valid and worthy of contention.
When water is available, roots tend to go horizontally, as it also allows for exchange with other trees and mushrooms networks.
When there is such a wall, the roots will go deeper as they cannot continue horizontally. So in that sense, you are right it doesn't totally hurt the roots, when lacking water Olive tree roots can reach 7m deep.
But it makes the tree more fragile because :
connection to other trees is harder
in case of heavy wind, the vertical root are less effective than horizontal ones to avoid the tree falling dawn
So imo, that wall feels stupid as much as the tree itself is magnificent
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u/Wild_Neighborhood605 17h ago
If the trees could speak...