I wonder whether all those details from so much of North America implies that Europeans visited all those places. And left their diseases. Or maybe they relied a lot on native informants. But that was also a disease pathway.
This does support the hypothesis of mass die-offs before substantive visits. As discussed in Mann’s 1491.
I've seen a lot of different hypotheses arguing settlers reached Americas earlier and more-often than has been recorded. A couple days ago some were talking about one idea, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674298
I wonder whether all those details from so much of North America implies that Europeans visited all those places. And left their diseases. Or maybe they relied a lot on native informants. But that was also a disease pathway.
This does support the hypothesis of mass die-offs before substantive visits. As discussed in Mann’s 1491.