As a matter of fact, replanted forests have already been re harvested!  But as to complex indigenous societies? Ha! We have 1)paleolithic (stone age) 2) mesolithic (middle sa) 3)Neo-lithic (new sa) 4)bronze age 5) iron age 6) medieval 7)industrial 8)Nuclear  The idigenous Americans never even made it to the new stone age, until white Europeans arrived.  And THAT sir, was progress.