1491 new revelations of the Americas before Columbus

Shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.

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Main Author: Mann, Charles C.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage, 2006.
Edition:1st Vintage Books ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Holmberg's mistake: View from above
  • Numbers from nowhere?: Why Billington survived
  • In the land of four quarters
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Very old bones: Pleistocene wars
  • Cotton (or anchovies) and maize (tales of two civilizations, part I)
  • Writing, wheels, and bucket brigades (tales of two civilizations, part II)
  • Landscape with figures: Made in America
  • Amazonia
  • Artificial wilderness
  • Great law of peace.