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Researchers closer to counting pre-Columbus Indigenous populations in the Americas
Original: 'It could have been a very different history': Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived
Researchers say they are finally making progress in pinning down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived in 1492. Population estimates have long been contested, with figures ranging wildly depending on method. Newer archaeological and genetic evidence is narrowing the uncertainty, and researchers note that a clearer count could have meant a very different understanding of the hemisphere's history.
Why now: New research is narrowing long-disputed estimates of the pre-contact Indigenous population of the Americas.
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