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pristine myth: a standalone construct

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Historical geography

the critique that pre-1492 American landscapes were not untouched wilderness but had been heavily modified by large Indigenous populations.

In historical geography, pristine myth refers to the critique that pre-1492 American landscapes were not untouched wilderness but had been heavily modified by large Indigenous populations. This meaning comes from Denevan (1992) in Annals of the Association of American Geographers.[1]

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Denevan, W. M. (1992). The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 82(3), 369-385. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1992.tb01965.x

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