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The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492

Denevan, William M.·1992·Annals of the Association of American Geographers
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1992.tb01965.x
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The myth persists that in 1492 the Americas were a sparsely populated wilderness, “a world of barely perceptible human disturbance’ There is substantial evidence, however, that the Native American landscape of the early sixteenth century was a humanized landscape almost everywhere. Populations were large. Forest composition had been modified, grasslands had been created, wildlife disrupted, and erosion was severe in places. Earthworks, roads, fields, and settlements were ubiquitous. With Indian depopulation in the wake of Old World disease, the environment recovered in many areas. A good argument can be made that the human presence was less visible in 1750 than it was in 1492.

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  • The Half-Earth idea forgets that human history is a history of landscape management, and Indigenous peoples are some of the very best guardians of biodiversity.

    “This idea, which comes cloaked in red (Robinson, 2018) and even Northern academic production aligned to the northern imperialist agenda (Vettese, 2018), forgets human history is a history of landscape management (Denevan, 1992(Denevan, , 2001), 6 and the Indigenous (Schuster et al., 2019) are some of the very best guardians of biodiversity.”

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Authors
Denevan, W. M.
Venue
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
1992-09
Volume
82
Issue
3
Pages
369-385
ISSN
  • 0004-5608
  • 1467-8306
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8306.1992.tb01965.x
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