North American Ecology Summary

How is our changing view of human population in the Americas prior to European contact impacting our view of North American ecology and our approaches to natural resources management? The ecology of North America prior to european contact was much different than we previously thought. We thought that their were very few Native Americans and that they lived in small colonies and had very little impact on their surroundings. When in reality there were millions of them, that lived in huge cities. They also had huge impacts on the environment. The early Americans displayed advanced techniques in the movement of goods around the continent. The movement of goods can be seen in artifacts that are similar but found thousands of miles away from each