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Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
A 2019 study that pooled 119 published estimates of the Americas' population in 1492.
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Koch and colleagues pooled all published estimates without judging their quality; the 18 million figure is Dobyns's (1983) for North America.
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Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019.
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Loss rates ranging from 40% (McEvedy and Jones, 1977) to 95% (Dobyns, 1966), with Denevan’s (1992a,b) more recent update producing a robust initial population estimate of 54 million (similar to our 60.5 million) that results in a 90% decline to 5.6 million in 1600 CE.
From 119 published regional population estimates we calculate a pre-1492 CE population of 60.5 million
The lower range of population estimates for North America lies between 900,000 and 2.4 million, based on tribe-by-tribe counts for the period 1600 CE to mid-1800 CE
has been criticized for its assumptions on food acquisition strategies
did not make any judgement on their relative quality.
Alexander Koch a, *, Chris Brierley a, Mark M. Maslin a, Simon L. Lewis a, b
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