just watched TV and there was something about a book, which seemingly (they said so) is a bestseller within the USA. It's about the american natives, sometimes called "Indians".
The author states that before the arrival of the Europeans there had been huge, highly complex cultures - of which remains are actually discovered since the late 90s. Before that, no-one knew or thought that the big channels and mounds were build by the natives.
The most interesting point of this is, however, the decline of their cultures. The author states that not superior weapon technology from the europeans drove them into nearly extinction, but instead viruses and deseases against which the natives had next to no protection at all. The narrator called it an "unwillingly biological warfare." Quote from the author : "The Europeans wondered about the vase crop fields and empty towns." They just took them over, that was the "secret of success" of the european settlers.
If that's true, then it's a) a boost for american archaeology, and b) parts of history must be written anew, so to say.
I find this very exciting !
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