Specific indigenous populations inhabited California before American settlement peaked
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Specific indigenous populations inhabited California long before European and American settlement, as demonstrated by archaeological and demographic studies.
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Spatiotemporal distribution of the North American Indigenous population prior to European contact.
2025 · cited by 2
Paper 6 specifically analyzes North American Indigenous populations prior to European contact and notes that California's indigenous population did not decline until after contact.
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Institutional complexity emerges from socioecological complexity in small-scale human societies.
2024 · cited by 1
Paper 10 examines institutional complexity and indigenous lifestyles across western North America immediately prior to European colonization.