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Article: Did Early Native Americans Live in Harmony With Nature?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 5, 1994
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By the time Europeans arrived in North America and marveled at
the resources they found, human beings had been living amid the
continent's bounty for at least 11,000 years.
While the ecological havoc wrought by European settlers has
been well documented, questions about how well the original
inhabitants managed natural resources have been debated for decades.
Now some answers are emerging.
In "The Day Before America," a recently released story of the
continent from 18,000 years ago to the present, environmental writer
William MacLeish paints the clearest portrait available of the
dramatic shifts in climate and ecology that swept North America
during the prehistoric period and of ...