1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus
(Book)
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Published
New York : Vintage, 2006.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Vintage books ed.
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Sequim - Nonfiction (Adult)
970.011 MANN
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970.011 MANN
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Descobrimento da américa.
História da américa.
Índios (história; civilização) -- América.
Native Americans -- Antiquities -- North America.
Native Americans -- Antiquities -- South America.
Native Americans -- North America -- History.
Native Americans -- North America -- Origin.
Native Americans -- South America -- History.
Native Americans -- South America -- Origin.
História da américa.
Índios (história; civilização) -- América.
Native Americans -- Antiquities -- North America.
Native Americans -- Antiquities -- South America.
Native Americans -- North America -- History.
Native Americans -- North America -- Origin.
Native Americans -- South America -- History.
Native Americans -- South America -- Origin.
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Published
New York : Vintage, 2006.
Edition
1st Vintage books ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 541 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
UPC
9781400032051
Notes
General Note
"With new afterword"--Cover.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
The author 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: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlan, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets. The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids. Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process that the journal Science recently described as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering."--Publisher description.