marshy

For instance, when permafrost melts the land left behind is extremely uneven, covered in marshy hollows and collapsing pingos.

Such that regions which are presently brackish marshes would have been riverside developments, and quite possibly far less marshy.

It bordered a marshy water body and the sun going down against it looked good.

Also, most marshy places are flat, and most flat places are notoriously windy so the usefulness would be generally quite low.

The soil around Jamestown was marshy and brackish, unsuitable for traditional English farming methods.

So would the surroundings have been green and marshy during the pyramid building?

To build other roads in a village where children can play may not be feasible in the short-term due to surrounding agriculture or marshy ground.

Salicornia do really well in salty marshy areas and are edible!

Likewise the Incas when creating Cusco in a marshy valley.

It grew where I grew up, but that was all coastal and marshy.

I think my current home would have been in marshy shoreland.

My wife, kids, and I lived in an old farm house located in a marshy area of the Midwest without AC for nearly a decade.

Malaria was prevalent in the Roman Empire, and the Roman scholars associated the disease with the marshy or swampy lands where the disease was particularly rampant.[13][14] It was from those Romans the name "malaria" originated.

Brazil has no crazy areas of desert, tundra, or other non-fertile areas, the only parts "hard" to live as human are the rainforest (because it is too dense, nothing you cannot fix by making your own clearing) and the marshy area (because to live there you need to figure how to make a floating house or a house that don't flood).