Today, the vast plains of the Americas often evoke images of agriculture or modern development. We picture massive fields of wheat blowing gently in the wind, long highways stretching into the horizon, and small herds of domestic cattle grazing on quiet hillsides. For generations, traditional history books have taught us to view this massive landscape as a territory that was only settled through slow, painstaking adaptation. A common view is that the earliest migrants moved cautiously from region to region, learning local plants and game as they adapted to new environments.
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