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	Population history of American indigenous peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The extent and causes of this population decline have long been the subject of controversy and debate, which became particularly widespread in 1992 during the 500th anniversary of Columbus's famous voyage, with a number of people claiming that the natives of the Americas have been the victims of genocide.
		When a population that has been relatively isolated is exposed to new diseases, they have no inborn resistance to the new diseases (they are "biologically naïve") and succumb at much higher rates, resulting in what is known as a "virgin soil" epidemic.
		Population decline was not only the result of increased death rates—decreased birth rates resulting from oppression and disruption of ways-of-life also had an impact.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pre-Columbian_population (3162 words)

	G. The Americas, 1000-1525. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Estimated population at the eve of the conquest was 9 million.
		The estimated population in the Yucatán was 400,000 to 500,000 at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards.
		The populations were mostly of agriculturalists organized into kinship groups, who paid tribute and worked their lords' lands.
	www.bartleby.com /67/570.html (1721 words)

	The Population of Guanahani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Further, this population estimate was not a mere fluke or error, since the first real count (in 1900) showed that, while the populations of both islands had declined, the smaller island still supported 15 times greater population density than the larger (McArthur 1967).
		If population density did not change as area increased, we would expect that the data points on such a log-log plot would be linear, highly correlated, and have a regression slope of 1.
		To reflect this, I have arbitrarily reduced the populations for islands north and west of Cat Island by half, and of Abaco and Grand Bahama by two-thirds.
	www1.minn.net /~keithp/lclog4.htm (3128 words)

	Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Linguistics suggests that there were three waves of contact from Siberia, the most recent being that of the ancestors of the Inuit.
		Recent evidence from molecular genetics suggests that the entire Amerindian population of the Americas may be derived from an effective founding population that was as small as 80 (Source: Hey, 2005).
		For the past 75 years, the mainstream conclusion, called the "Bering land bridge theory", has been that the native cultures of America developed in complete isolation from the rest of humanity until the voyages of Columbus initiated contact from Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_contact (3895 words)

	Pre-Columbian population
		Other scholars are advancing a contrary view, that Pre-Columbian peoples built cities and practiced large-scale agriculture, enough to support a hundred million or more.
		The largely empty, supposedly natural continent European settlers of North America saw had actually actually a recent development after the bulk of the indigenous population was killed off by European diseases that traveled well in advance of settlers.
		While population estimates for certain specific areas of the Americas can be based on archeological data, such data is insufficent to form credible population estimates for the American continent as a whole, so projections rely in part on conjecture and continue to vary significantly.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Pre-Columbian_population.html (195 words)

	Pre-Columbian Society Found in the Amazon
		Based on tests of ceramic fragments found in the area, the boundaries of the villages and the density of houses in the most recent villages, the team estimates that each cluster of settlements was home to 2,500 to 5,000 people.
		Over the past two decades, archeologists have gathered evidence that parts of the Amazon were more densely populated before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492, and that these peoples significantly modified their surroundings.
		Linguistic data contribute to the hypothesis of how the Upper Xingú was populated, forming an arc of migrations extending from the Caribbean Sea, through Venezuela, Guyana, the Rio Negro in the extreme northwest of Brazil, Peru and the Bolivian plains, until reaching what today is Mato Grosso.
	www.tierramerica.net /2003/0922/iarticulo.shtml (1024 words)

	Shooting Sheep to Save Sagebrush: The Violence of Habitat Restoration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maintaining healthy populations of pre-Columbian (pre-European) species is a major concern for environmentalists, whose sense of urgency is enhanced by the knowledge that so many species are threatened with extinction, and that severe damage can be done in a relatively brief period of time.
		The goal of The Nature Conservancy is the recovery and preservation of populations of pre-Columbian plants and animals, and the recreation of the pre-Columbian ecology.
		Having reduced their population from millions to thousands, we restrict their movement to designated areas, and we control and protect them within the boundaries we have established.
	egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj09/shelton1.html (3356 words)

	Costa Rica: Pre-Columbian History
		Their movements were likely related to local elimination, or severe decline, in the larger game species populations (e.g., peccaries and deer).
		As the generations passed and they gained knowledge of the local plant species and their potential uses as food, fiber, building material, and medicine, the foundation for more sedentary populations was laid.
		Both the transfer of plant species for cultivation and the art of pottery point to the fact that the native populations of the time did not live in total isolation from one another.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/gonebirding/precol.html (1058 words)

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		The population was devastated by epidemics of diseases brought by the Spanish.
		Following an epidemic, the host population often returns to susceptibility because of the deterioration of individual immunity, the removal of immune individuals by death and the birth of susceptible individuals.
		The fact that the population was probably much lower than the optimal suggests that factors beyond the Spaniards control that led to the decline.
	members.lycos.co.uk /duncbaines/whistory3.htm (3537 words)

	Articles - Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		South Central Alaska is the southern coastal region and is the population center for the state.
		As of 2003, the population of Alaska was 648,818.
		The vast, sparsely populated bush regions of northern and western Alaska are primarily inhabited by Alaska Natives, and they also have a large presence in the southeast.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Alaska (3025 words)

	Cyprus holiday villas - Travel Articles Alaska
		The population of the state is 626,932, as of 2000.
		Most if not all of the pre-Columbian population of the Americas took this route, but continued further south and east.
		Alaska's most populous city is Anchorage, home of 260,284 people, 225,744 of whom live in the urbanized area.
	www.rentcyprus.co.uk /wikipedia/alaska.htm (1272 words)

	Pre Columbian Art & Architecture - IV. Cultural Traits
		One was the ceremonial center, a complex of structures primarily consisting of religious and administrative buildings constructed around plazas, but without common dwellings or streets.
		It is conjectured that only the secular and religious rulers and their courts lived in these centers, while the majority of the population resided on small farms in a surrounding suburban zone.
		The area, one of the largest Maya ceremonial centers, is believed to have sustained a population of 50,000 until it was abandoned, for unknown reasons, in the 10th century.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/precolumbionart4.htm (393 words)

	Pre-Columbian History with Tours Nicaragua
		populated the eastern sea board regions and are of South American lowland origin and though almost extinct today, they are still present in small numbers.
		Other pre-Columbian cultures of note where the mountain Matagalpa people thought to be related to the Lenca, and the strangely primitive and yet to be understood Chontales who inhabited the eastern side of the lakes and in what is now the city of León the Subtiava from Baja California in Mexico.
		One year later a stronger force was sent and the populous was subjected in a campaign by Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, Granada and Leon were founded on the shores of Lake Nicaragua and Lake Managua respectively.
	www.nvmundo.com /toursnicaragua/columbian.htm (501 words)

	History
		Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain a colony of its pre-Columbian population, the Carib Indians, about 500 of whom live in a reserve on the island's east coast.
		The population growth rate is low, due primarily to emigration to more prosperous Caribbean islands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.
		The power of the fl population progressively eroded until crown colony government, after severe colonial office pressure, was forced on the assembly in 1896.
	www.webdesigns.ai /leroy/domhis.htm (777 words)

	Pre-Columbian
		This land bridge was formed by low sea levels caused by glaciers freezing up vast amounts of ocean water and exposing a path for the pre Columbian Native Americans to cross into the "New World" thousands of years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" it.
		It is impossible to establish a true number of the Native American population of the Western Hemisphere at the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Carribian in 1492.
		Population counts of forty ninety million are estimated.
	historyanddisease.tripod.com /exchange/id1.html (303 words)

	Yellowstone's Northern Range: Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dobyns (1983), for example, whose pre-Columbian population estimates have been the most extreme and controversially high (Denevan 1992), estimated that the human population of the entire New Worldthat is North, Central, and South Americawas around 100 million, most of whom lived in Mexico, Central and South America.
		Dobyns (1983) estimated that the pre-Columbian population of North America was about 18 million, most of whom lived in the east, in the Mississippi Valley, or along the west coast (Dobyns estimated 722,000 lived in Florida alone).
		North American human populations did not remain constant during the roughly 11,000 years during which the archeological record suggests that humans were inhabiting the Yellowstone area.
	www.nps.gov /yell/nature/northernrange/ch2d.htm (1225 words)

	Moose and People H ow moose have survived and prospered in northern Eurasia and North America is a complex story
		Although the size of North America's pre-Columbian native population remains a subject of debate, recent studies suggest that a large human population extracted sustenance from the land to the limits of available technology.
		The huge forest fires that accompanied the development of gold mines and railway lines aided this recovery; it was hindered by hunters who supplied meat to the gold mines and to the settlements that the railway served.
		In this the military strategists were largely successful, and by 1900, wildlife and native populations had declined to their nadir.
	www.hunting101.com /biggame/northamerica/moose/moose004.htm (4632 words)

	Short history of the North American Native American
		The various epidemics would have decimated the populations since the Natives had little or no immunity to the various diseases such as small pox, chicken pox, cholera, measles, rubella, yellow fever, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, and typhus among others.
		The arrival of the French explorers in the 1730s brought disease reducing the population to 9,000 living in nine villages in 1750.
		population in 1836 was 1600 and in 1837 it was 138.
	www.geocities.com /jdssquirrel/bes/history.html (3389 words)

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		Paleopathology, the study of disease in ancient human populations, is a field that traces its roots to several academic disciplines, including anthropology, pathology, and the history of medicine.
		The results of such studies have provided information on the relative importance of marine and terrestrial foods in the diet of coastal populations, documented the dietary adaptations of highland immigrants to coastal environments, and identified major dietary shifts, such as the adoption of maize agriculture.
		However, there is evidence that basic skills, such as the splinting of broken bones and the cleaning and treatment of wounds, were well-advanced in native populations at the time of European contact.
	www.paho.org /English/DPI/Number7_article2.htm (2480 words)

	PRE-COLUMBIAN ANDEAN CIVILIZATION
		Like all other civilizations andean culture was founded on agriculture which permitted fo for the formation of a large and sedentary population with leisure time to devote to cultural development between harvest and sowing.
		The social and economic base of ancient andean civilization was the ayllu, which was a rural social unit or village based on kinship organization.
		The population was probably dense and largely urbanized, agriculture was carried to its ultimate limit, and craftsmanship was perfected.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/andean~1.htm (2152 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pre-Columbian Discovery of America
		The discoverer was Eric the Red, who named the icy coasts Greenland, to induce his Icelandic countrymen to colonize the land, As to the date, Ari learned that it was the fourteenth or fifteenth winter before the formal introduction of Christianity into Iceland (1000), i.
		Ari's information with respect to the civilization of the former population of Greenland is of peculiar importance, giving as it does a glimpse of conditions in Vinland.
		As to the churches, which average in length from fifty to sixty-five feet, and in breadth, twenty-six, and are built of large, carefully selected stones, the Gripla, an old northern chorography, fragments of which have come down to us, records twelve in the eastern settlement, and four in the western.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01416a.htm (7713 words)

	PRE-COLUMBIAN ART VI: EASTERN MEXICO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The history for the region follows the general pattern for the other heavily populated areas of Mexico.
		During the Archaic Period (before 1500 BC) there was a transition from hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants to raising domestic animals and crops, enabling people to live settled lives in villages.
		Many of the cities were abandoned and the population returned to a more rural village life.
	www.davis-art.com /artimages/slidesets/slideset.asp?setnumber=327 (536 words)

	History of Central America
		The Maya civilization originated in the highlands of Guatemala before the 1st millennium BC and reached its greatest flowering between AD 300 and 900 in autonomous city-states in what are now northern Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
		The population of the isthmus on the eve of the Spanish conquest may have been as large as 6 million, a figure not again achieved until the 20th century.
		His reports of great wealth beyond the mountains that ran the length of the heavily populated isthmus stimulated Spanish conquest, which was launched from Hispaniola under Columbus's son, Diego.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/HISTOR~8.htm (1189 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pre-Columbian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The population of the New World prior to contact with Europe in 1492 is the subject of debate in historical and archaeological circles.
		The Columbian Exchange has been one of the most significant events in the history of world ecology, agriculture, and culture.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pre_Columbian (494 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 79037667
		Population at selected ranks from 1st to 100th of the largest urban places, 1790-1900.
		Population and density of the 100 largest places, 1950.
		Population and density of the 100 largest places, 1990.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/wiley031/79037667.html (647 words)

	THE PRE-COLUMBIAN PEOPLING OF AMERICA: BY THE Y CHROMOSOME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Today, populations that still live in the land they inhabited before the XV century are referred to as aboriginal populations.
		Habits such as polygyny (many wives for a man), and female transfer from other populations, would be examples of factors leading to distinct histories of males and females found in the same population.
		Population sources have been proposed in the region around Mongolia and south Siberia, while suggested times for their entry into the Americas range between 30,000 and 15,000 years ago (12).
	www.icb.ufmg.br /~lbem/pdf/alab2004/index.html (2630 words)

	Scientific Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Early in the 20th century, Fonseca (not fully published until 1970) discovered the parasite in an isolated Amerindian population in the Amazon basin.
		Biologists believe that a given species arises only once in the course of evolution because any new species develops within a unique set of environmental parameters that is found in only a single geographical location (see Zohary 1996, 156; for changes in thought on this topic, see Blumler 1992; 1996).
		Plant geographer N. Polunin (1960) stated the governing principle very clearly: "The chances that two isolated populations will evolve in exactly the same way are incalculably low," since, as Wulff (1943, 56) put it, "no two localities on earth are exactly alike in all...
	spp.pinyin.info /abstracts/spp133_precolumbian.html (2138 words)

	Rush Limbaugh: Indian Population Debate and Poll
		According to Carl Shaw of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, estimates of the pre-Columbus population of what later became the United States range from 5 million to 15 million.
		Native populations in the late 19th century fell to 250,000, due in part to genocidal policies.
		As for Indian population in the New World, Robert Royal, author of 1492 And All That: Political Manipulations of History, writes: "Estimates of pre-Columbian population figures have become heavily politicized with scholars who are particularly critical of Europe often favoring wildly higher figures.
	www.youdebate.com /DEBATES/rush_indian_population.HTM (401 words)

	The Use of Mitochondrial DNA to Discover Pre-Columbian Migrations to the Caribbean by Juan C. Martinez Cruzado
		Using the population information from the 1990 Census as well as a computer model, we randomly chose 1,067 residences in order to match the population density across Puerto Rico; therefore, these residences constituted a genuine representative sample of all of Puerto Rico’s residences.
		Genetic drift increases the likelihood of a dramatic change in the frequency of haplogroups of a population that could occur fortuitously when the size of the population is dramatically reduced.
		The second explanation is based on the principle in the field of population genetics that says that when a migratory population arrives at a place where there already exists another population and competes against it, the genetics of the native population will remain predominant.
	www.kacike.org /MartinezEnglish.html (4921 words)

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