No I have not read it but should. But I understand what you say. As a historian it is one of my pet peeves. They will go so far as to change it as much as they hide it. For some reason ever since the beginning of the Anglican studies of ancient history this has been the case.
It is still practiced today even by non-Christians in the fields of archaeology and anthropology. Sometimes without any real plausible or needed reason to except for maybe protecting income from books and classes.
It’s become compulsive and you have to read between the lines and find the truth for yourself. And... Sometimes you get fortintae enough to be close to a study like this and see it first hand. Yet that is not what gets published or it gets buried.
Like the still thought notion that all native americans were ignorant savages because they didn’t have the wheel. They understood the wheel just fine. Just had no need for it. With the wheel comes the need for the infrastructure to utilize this wheel. The only need for a wheel is when one is greedy or glutenous and want to carry more than they truly need to survive.
When this continent was “founded” the savages already had a very efficient and well organized government. So well organized that our own framers studied it and adopted some of the principles for our own as they framed our new one. True historical knowledge is being strongly suppressed, especially by religion, and it is an absolute crime for an honest objective historian.
Lots of uses for the wheel, if you have any agriculture. Agriculture in most of North and South America was not well developed. They had very few domestic animals, unlike Eurasia, or even Africa.
You don't need to be greedy to use wheels. You just don't want your children to die of starvation in the winter.
Americans before the European came (and for quite a while after) lived very brutal and short lives.