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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...
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Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Describes the ancient cultures of North America based on archaeological findings, including extensive sections on the background of North American exploration and archaeology, the Paleo-Indians, the Great Plains, the Far North, the West, and the Eastern Woodlands, and a chapter on European contact.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"This book is an offbeat field guide for sites in North America that reflect the rejection of the facts of prehistory and history. Though fake, the forty sites Feder highlights are fascinating and fun places to visit. Feder provides an entertaining summary of those forty sites along with the practical information you'll need to visit them."--Provided by publisher.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.
15) The Maya
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student. This edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic findings, which continue to proceed at a fast pace, along with full-color illustrations. The new material includes...
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Sigma Force novels volume 7
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English
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After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
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Special publication volume no. 17
Publisher
Archeological Society of Virginia
Pub. Date
©1989
Language
English
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