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May 11th, 2009 - 12:55 pm
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Not quite. The Mann hypothesis is that before white settlement post-1492, pre-Columbian explorers had come by and brought disease that annihilated 95% of the huuuuge number of people who were there before, so the nomadic hunter-gatherers (with long-standing oral histories that treated their existence at the time as natural and contained no reference whatsoever to massive plagues) were in fact the remnants of a vast, populous, settled civilisation; the wilderness post-1492 settlers found was something that had grown back over the previous century or so.
His case is marginally stronger in South America, since there were large cities there, but his case is still pretty much entirely constituted of fail. |
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