Nomads need about 50 sq miles per person. So, in North America, probably no more than 20 million. That’s still pretty crowded by nomadic standards, so it can’t be more than that under the best conditions. Even if you account that some natives did have urbanization.
Would proximity to a sea coast be a factor?
“Nomads need about 50 sq miles per person. So, in North America, probably no more than 20 million. That’s still pretty crowded by nomadic standards, so it can’t be more than that under the best conditions. Even if you account that some natives did have urbanization.”
I’ve heard 2 to 3 million. Roughly the amount that our country could sustain had the Russians retaliated for the Neocons shooting missiles into their country.
I read that there was a disease epidemic that spread throught North and South American that eradicated large populations before the arrival of the Europeans. It seemed to mirror the time of the bubonic plague in Europe.