Study: Native Americans Barely Impacted Landscape for 14,000 Years. Europeans Came and Changed Everything

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By Jordan SimmonsJan 22, 2020, 2:43 pm314 pts
There's a theory going around that Native Americans actively managed the land the lived on, using controlled burns to clear forests. It turns out that theory is wrong. New research shows that Native Americans barely altered the landscape at all. It was the Europeans who did that, as ZME Science reported. The…

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