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March 23, 2011
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Native Americans Modified American Landscape Years Prior To The Arrival Of Europeans
Waco TX (SPX) Mar 23, 2011
A new study by Baylor University geology researchers shows that Native Americans' land use nearly a century ago produced a widespread impact on the eastern North American landscape and floodplain development several hundred years prior to the arrival of major European settlements. The study appears on-line in the journal Geology. Researchers attribute early colonial land-use practices, such as deforestation, plowing and damming with influencing present-day hydrological systems across eastern ... read more

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