Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but we're using new techniques to get it right
- Written by Sturt Manning, Director of the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory and Professor of Classical Archaeology, Cornell University
For centuries, indigenous history has been largely told through a European lens.John White, circa 1585-1593, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SAColumbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609 marks the creation of the modern globalized world.
This...