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America is built on top of one enormous Indian graveyard. They were living here for more than ten thousand years. That's a lot of dying.
by JoeAltmaier 2y ago
America is built on top of one enormous Indian graveyard. They were living here for more than ten thousand years. That's a lot of dying.
- dmd 2y agoThe entire world, other than Antarctica, is a human graveyard, and the American continents have been inhabited for less time than most of the rest.
- nkrisc 2y agoEverything everywhere is built on someone’s grave. Also, humans have been in the Americas for far more than ten thousand years, which is itself a small amount of time compared to how long humans have been present elsewhere in the world.
- JoeAltmaier 2y agoNot much longer! 14,000 by some estimates. Just gave a ballpark number but sure, more than that.
- nkrisc 2y agoDepends on where in the Americas you’re talking about. I’ve seen estimates up to 50k years ago for human presence in Beringia, presumably the first humans to make the trek from Asia. Much of the evidence is probably underwater now though.
- JoeAltmaier 2y agoI like that!