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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I take a amateur interest in early American history and I love Mann's 1491 and 1493 books, but it's interesting to note how many print textbooks are just flat wrong about a LOT of early American history.
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Oh, most of that was "superceded" by the official narrative of the 1880s just as the archaelogically accurate history of north american pre-history is being superceded by the "official" politically correct narrative of modern times.
It is going to be a while, if ever, before we know exactly who the Clovis people really were and where they came from because any suggestion that they (or their precursors) might *not* be of asian ("mongoloid") descent is promptly shot down. (c.f. The Kennewick man controversy.)
There is too much modern politics at stake to allow other narratives to be openly considered.
