This is something I have been curious about for a while, and haven’t been able to find anything as an answer, but how do we know the population statistics for the native populations? How do we know that so many people died, and how do we know that they were killed by disease? did explorers find cities filled with festering corpses, or skeletons? are there native accounts of a “great sickness” over taking their people? Where does the information come from?
I know it makes sense as an explanation, but I’m asking where the evidence that it happened came from.
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> are there native accounts of a “great sickness” over taking their people?
That’s a big one. Not everyone died and those who survived could certainly tell that the people they knew had gotten sick before they died.
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