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000294728 1001_ $$aMann, Charles C.
000294728 24510 $$a1491 :$$bnew revelations of the Americas before Columbus /$$cCharles C. Mann.
000294728 250__ $$a1st ed.
000294728 260__ $$aNew York :$$bKnopf,$$c2005.
000294728 300__ $$axii, 465 p. :$$bill., maps ;$$c25 cm.
000294728 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [403]-449) and index.
000294728 5050_ $$aHolmberg's mistake -- A view from above -- 1: Numbers from nowhere? -- Why Billington survived -- In the land of four quarters -- Frequently asked questions -- 2: Very old bones -- Pleistocene wars -- Cotton (or anchovies) and maize (tales of two civilizations, part I) -- Writing, wheels, and bucket brigades (tales of two civilizations, part II) -- 3: Landscape with figures -- Made in America -- Amazonia -- The artificial wilderness -- The great law of peace.
000294728 520__ $$aMann 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 Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, 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."--From publisher description.
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000294728 650_0 $$aIndians$$xHistory.
000294728 650_0 $$aIndians$$xAntiquities.
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