UGS 303 Lecture 2: Interpreting the past 2: Shifting research
8 Feb 2019
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The americas were perceived to be the land of wilderness before columbus arrived. The author miller, in an environmental history of latin america , and mann, in his 149:new. Revelations of the americas before columbus , assert that the contemporary understanding of the environment and agriculture of the americas is compromised due to the mass promotion of pristine myth: theory that the americas were the mere wilderness(mann). However, both of the authors aggressively argue that the continent was extensively populated and settlements, farming, wildlife disturbance, earthworks, road and fields were ubiquitous. It has been devised that the population of natives was less visible in 1750 than in 1492 (mann). This notion supports that human settlements were frequent and actual population was higher than predicted. These settlements of people were involved in the land management(miller). The natives made the cultivation lands around their villages and houses.
