I wonder whether all those details from so much of North America implies that Europeans visited all those places. And left their diseases. Or maybe they relied a lot on native informants. But that was also a disease pathway.
This does support the hypothesis of mass die-offs before substantive visits. As discussed in Mann’s 1491.
I've seen a lot of different hypotheses arguing settlers reached Americas earlier and more-often than has been recorded. A couple days ago some were talking about one idea, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674298
Unrelated (sorry), but here’s what I see when I open that Medium link in Safari. It’s quite a challenge to find the article between the pop-ups.
Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/XbYLs5c.png
But they haven’t improved that in years, so I suspect it must actually be working for them and convert well!
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 16.8 ms ] threadI wonder whether all those details from so much of North America implies that Europeans visited all those places. And left their diseases. Or maybe they relied a lot on native informants. But that was also a disease pathway.
This does support the hypothesis of mass die-offs before substantive visits. As discussed in Mann’s 1491.
But they haven’t improved that in years, so I suspect it must actually be working for them and convert well!