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Originally Posted by drgoodtrips
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Jefferson was a lay archaeologist who declared that, based on his observations of the great mounds surrounding the Mississippi, the aboriginal people of this land must have been a great nation. He was the first to suggest this as a reasonable explanation rather than declaring that white people must have been there earlier and were wiped out by the "savages" who were ancestral to today's aboriginal groups. It took balls to say that in the 1760s.