Tudhal t1_j195xxg wrote on December 22, 2022 at 4:19 PM Reply to comment by Anonynja in Discovery of 1,000 previously unknown Maya settlements challenges the old notion of sparse early human occupation in northern Guatemala (ca. 1000 B.C.–A.D. 150) by marketrent >many tens of millions of people lived in the so-called Americas before colonization and genocide. This article is about the region 2000 years before Columbus. There weren’t many places on the planet in 1000 BC to 100 AD with tens of millions of people. Even Rome was scarcely more than a village in 500 BC. Permalink Parent 11
Tudhal t1_j195xxg wrote
Reply to comment by Anonynja in Discovery of 1,000 previously unknown Maya settlements challenges the old notion of sparse early human occupation in northern Guatemala (ca. 1000 B.C.–A.D. 150) by marketrent
>many tens of millions of people lived in the so-called Americas before colonization and genocide.
This article is about the region 2000 years before Columbus.
There weren’t many places on the planet in 1000 BC to 100 AD with tens of millions of people.
Even Rome was scarcely more than a village in 500 BC.