Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002)

Re:Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002) by WalterBright on Monday October 13, 2014 @02:47PM (#8449966)

This is a great read. It's always fun to read about how much we don't know about even the recent past.

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Re:Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002) by benbreen on Monday October 13, 2014 @02:49PM (#8449976)

Mann's books ("1491" and "1493") are even better - great examples of longform journalism as history. They also update some of the facts in the article, since we've learned a lot more in the past decade.

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Re:Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002) by SiVal on Monday October 13, 2014 @03:13PM (#8450067)

I totally agree, and I think a combination of a vast increase in sequenced human DNA from all living human groups plus many dead ones plus ever-improving algorithms for determining the space-time layout of the taxonomy will tell us some amazing things about the past in the near future.

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