Posted on 11/23/2012 6:27:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The drought believed by some to have disrupted life on the Colorado Plateau preceded the Spaniard diseases by a few hundred years.
Another fallen people.
Is that what I’ve seen referred to as the Classical Mayan Collapse?
The tribes didn’t die of disease in New Mexico. They died of starvation. The only white men at these monasteries were the priests. They hadn’t yet brought in settlers that would spread disease.
Anyway, all I know about it is what the docent explained.
fascinating
For something else I was doing, I went looking for corroboration of a statement that I'd read multiple times, that the archaeological remains of agriculturalists show more signs of disease and poor health than the remains of hunter-gatherers. This was pretty close to the top of the search results.
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