How Ancient Poop Debunked Myth of Native American Lost Civilization

[wnylib]

2. Good to see this study.

Of course, people don't just "vanish" from the face of the earth when a civilization declines. They relocate in groups if the region is no longer habitable and take their cultural customs with them, adaped to fit their new circumstances. Or, they stay in the area in smaller groups and keep some customs while adopting new ones.

Or, as in the case of Britain, the original nation remains while its governing control over remote regions declines, leaving behind its influence in those regions.

Various cultures and their influences rose and fell in the Americas, too, before Columbus, and adapted in various ways after him.