European settlers not the first to alter american landscape
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 14:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
One of the great American myths claims that before Europeans colonists settled in North America, Native Americans existed in total harmony with nature, surviving on the renewable bounty that the continent's natural environment provided and altering little of the surrounding landscapes. They were Americas first environmentalists and the land they lived in remained unspoiled. But that is not entirely true.