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Henry Dobyns

Anthropologist whose estimates of the pre-1492 population of the Americas are among the highest.

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Their Number Become Thinned Scholarship & press 1
Their Number Become Thinned Scholarship & press 2
Sources differ on his totals: Koch and colleagues give 112 million for the hemisphere; Ostler gives 75 million.

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Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019. Scholarship & press
Dobyns, H.F., 1983. Their Number Become Thinned: Native American Population Dynamics in Eastern North America. University of Tennessee Press, Tennessee.
Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?, History News Network, reprinting Commentary, 1 Sep 2004. Scholarship & press
Henry Dobyns, who in 1983 had estimated the aboriginal population of North America as a whole at 18 million and of the present territory of the United States at about 10 million.

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