Original sentence: Early European settlers in the region, however, did not record much about the culture of the natives.However, there may have been human presence far earlier, at least as far as non–settling populations are concerned.The earliest definitively established occupation by modern man (Homo sapiens) appears to have occurred six to ten thousand years ago
Edited sentence: A occupiers (who did their best to exterminate them), little of their history, lore or culture was recorded at the time.Although the earliest occupation by modern man (Homo sapiens) appears to be about six to ten thousand years before the present period, these numbers are not definitive and may possibly extend to far earlier times, at least as far as non–settling populations are concerned.As the culture and its values was not respected by either the first Spanish colonizers (who considered the natives both heathens to be converted to Christianity and easily enslavable labor) nor the second U