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| | 1491: The Pristine Myth |
 | | Estimates of the population of North America in 1491 disagree by an order of magnitude -- from 18 million, Dobyns's revised figure, to 1.8 million, calculated by Douglas H. Ubelaker, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian. |
 | | Charles C. Mann, in "1491" (March Atlantic), surveys the contentious debate over what the Americas were like before Columbus arrived -- a debate that has important ramifications for how we manage the "wilderness" we still have left, if indeed it really is wilderness, untouched by the hand of man. |
 | | Problem is, this new generation of anthropologists and archaeologists is saying that as a matter of cold, hard fact the Americas in 1491 were not a wilderness. |
| www.citizenreviewonline.org /feb_2003/1491.htm (13864 words) |
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