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To: SunkenCiv

So is this a trick question? A multiple choice question? Why did I waste my time searching for the answer only to be told we don’t know. We didn’t try to estimate the number.


9 posted on 02/08/2025 7:14:08 PM PST by sunny bonobo
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To: sunny bonobo

50 sq miles per person is an absurdly high figure, except for the Sahara or other desert region.

Tribes of the Americas were mostly semi-nomadic at most, with plenty of longer term settlements and lots of settled agricultural populations.

The rises and falls in Precolumbian populations have long been understood, this study appears to be expressed a percentages. I couldn’t find a complete PDF, just the abstract.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419454122#abstract

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419454122


24 posted on 02/08/2025 7:53:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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