Indigenous civilizations are far older and more complex than history suggests
Aren&#x27;t all civilizations far older and more complex than history can account for?  We don&#x27;t really know how the pyramids arrived, or a detailed history of England back very far -- who created Stonehenge?<p>It&#x27;s interesting that the migration out of Africa and over to the Americas happened so much longer ago than previously thought, but it doesn&#x27;t change what happened when the European settlers arrived.  The author seems to be asserting that this gives the Native Americans more claim than they would otherwise have.<p>But I don&#x27;t understand that logic; human history, known and unknown, is littered with people suffering under the hands of conquerors.  The story is the same in Asia and Europe as it is in the Americas.  The Natives themselves weren&#x27;t always peaceful and conquered and claimed land from each other.  Hopefully we can do better than this going forward, but the past is what it is, a harsh existence for victors and even more so for the vanquished.