Dan Flores

Raven and Coyote would never be able to turn things back to the way they had been.

Well, I had to look for some explanations for what appeared to be a fairly obvious contradiction premise, which is that when people from the old world arrive 500 years ago, they find a North American continent that seems to be ecologically healthy. with a pretty wide diversity of animals and birds and fishes.

Well, I had to look for some explanations for what appeared to be a fairly obvious contradiction premise, which is that when people from the old world arrive 500 years ago, they find a North American continent that seems to be ecologically healthy. with a pretty wide diversity of animals and birds and fishes.

Well, I had to look for some explanations for what appeared to be a fairly obvious contradiction premise, which is that when people from the old world arrive 500 years ago, they find a North American continent that seems to be ecologically healthy. with a pretty wide diversity of animals and birds and fishes.

And I mean, we know that to some extent that description was based on a kind of ecological release of animals and birds and other species that came about as a result of the suppression of Indian population through this sort of inadvertent introduction of old world disease.

And I mean, we know that to some extent that description was based on a kind of ecological release of animals and birds and other species that came about as a result of the suppression of Indian population through this sort of inadvertent introduction of old world disease.

And I mean, we know that to some extent that description was based on a kind of ecological release of animals and birds and other species that came about as a result of the suppression of Indian population through this sort of inadvertent introduction of old world disease.

And so the Indian population drops from nearly 5 million, which is what it was we think at about the time of contact, down to about 900,000 in what is now the United States and Canada. as a result of those disease epidemics. And so a lot of the descriptions we get of kind of what a marvelous Eden of nature North America was kind of based on that, on this rapid ecological release. But

And so the Indian population drops from nearly 5 million, which is what it was we think at about the time of contact, down to about 900,000 in what is now the United States and Canada. as a result of those disease epidemics. And so a lot of the descriptions we get of kind of what a marvelous Eden of nature North America was kind of based on that, on this rapid ecological release. But

And so the Indian population drops from nearly 5 million, which is what it was we think at about the time of contact, down to about 900,000 in what is now the United States and Canada. as a result of those disease epidemics. And so a lot of the descriptions we get of kind of what a marvelous Eden of nature North America was kind of based on that, on this rapid ecological release. But

On the other hand, when you sort of try to survey the range of species that were present, we think were present, say, 10,000 years ago, and the ones that were still present 500 years ago, there's not really a substantial difference in the range. Now, there would have been, there's no question, there's evidence here and there, that there were reductions in numbers of particular species. But

On the other hand, when you sort of try to survey the range of species that were present, we think were present, say, 10,000 years ago, and the ones that were still present 500 years ago, there's not really a substantial difference in the range. Now, there would have been, there's no question, there's evidence here and there, that there were reductions in numbers of particular species. But

On the other hand, when you sort of try to survey the range of species that were present, we think were present, say, 10,000 years ago, and the ones that were still present 500 years ago, there's not really a substantial difference in the range. Now, there would have been, there's no question, there's evidence here and there, that there were reductions in numbers of particular species. But

uh as we talked last time i mean when i was doing the research on on the this particular chapter which is out of wild new world i can only find evidence of one entire and complete extinction during that 10 000 year period which of course is very different from the pleistocene that preceded it and it's very different from the 500 years since then So I was tasked with trying to figure out, so why?

uh as we talked last time i mean when i was doing the research on on the this particular chapter which is out of wild new world i can only find evidence of one entire and complete extinction during that 10 000 year period which of course is very different from the pleistocene that preceded it and it's very different from the 500 years since then So I was tasked with trying to figure out, so why?

uh as we talked last time i mean when i was doing the research on on the this particular chapter which is out of wild new world i can only find evidence of one entire and complete extinction during that 10 000 year period which of course is very different from the pleistocene that preceded it and it's very different from the 500 years since then So I was tasked with trying to figure out, so why?

How did this happen? How is it possible to do this? And I came up with two or three explanations, really, that I relied on and I think have some explanatory power. And one of them has to do with the fact that North America is colonized by people at a far later date than much of the rest of the world. And in a lot of the rest of the world, like in Eurasia, for example,

How did this happen? How is it possible to do this? And I came up with two or three explanations, really, that I relied on and I think have some explanatory power. And one of them has to do with the fact that North America is colonized by people at a far later date than much of the rest of the world. And in a lot of the rest of the world, like in Eurasia, for example,

How did this happen? How is it possible to do this? And I came up with two or three explanations, really, that I relied on and I think have some explanatory power. And one of them has to do with the fact that North America is colonized by people at a far later date than much of the rest of the world. And in a lot of the rest of the world, like in Eurasia, for example,

the human population reaches a point where it becomes pretty difficult to live as hunters and gatherers because the numbers of huntable creatures are gradually being reduced. And so at the end of the Pleistocene, that sort of stimulates what we call the Neolithic revolution in the old world, the agricultural revolution, where you start relying a lot on grown crops.