Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but we’re using new techniques to get it right .
Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609 marks the creation of the modern globalized world.
This period brought extraordinary riches to Europe, and genocide and disease to indigenous peoples across the Americas.
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