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In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America's known human…
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I love the grand sweep of the history of humans in North America. It strethes all the way from the Pleistocene to the 21st century. Dan Flores provides a thought-provoking assessment of the complex relationship Americans have with wild animals and puts this into the larger framework of environmental history.
From Greg's list on environmental history and who speaks for the trees.
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