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The depopulation of native America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ezra Zubrow
Ezra Zubrow*
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Department of Anthropology, SUNY, 380 MFAC, Buffalo NY 14261, USA
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The replacement, for the most part, of native American populations by immigrants in the centuries after 1492 is one of the great demographic shifts of the modern world. It is fundamental for American archaeology, of course, and makes the background for acute moral and ethical issues, which will become more visible as the 500th anniversary of the Columbus landfall nears

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 245 , December 1990 , pp. 754 - 765
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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