<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:01 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">> I have stayed out of this discussion, but the premise implied in the subject line vaguely implies that dead does not precede European contact. </span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Another myth is that the native Americans lived in ecological harmony with the land, but just a few thousand years ago the megafauna in the Americas was more spectacular than even what could be found in Africa, but it all vanished almost immediately when humans moved in for the first time. The native Australians and New Zealanders did the same thing with their megafauna. <br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>