Articles for tag: Ancient American cultures, Archaeological Discoveries, indigenous history, lost civilizations

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8 Ancient American Cultures That Vanished: What Science Tells Us Now

Suhail Ahmed

  Across the Americas, entire civilizations rose, flourished, and then slipped away so completely that early European observers sometimes assumed the continent had always been sparsely peopled. Today, archaeologists, climatologists, geneticists, and even soil chemists are quietly overturning that myth. They are recovering stories of complex cities, engineered landscapes, and vast trade routes that collapsed ...