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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Hardcover - 2005
by Charles C. Mann
In this groundbreaking study, Mann shows how a new generation of anthropologists and archaeologists, using new research techniques, have come to the persuasive conclusion that more people lived in the Americas in 1491 than in Europe.
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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them:- In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.- Certain cities--such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital--were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, 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.- Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering."- Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it--a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge.- Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings.Mann sheds clarifying light on the methods used to arrive at these new visions of the pre-Columbian Americas and how they have affected our understanding of our history and our thinking about the environment. His book is an exciting and learned account of scientific inquiry and revelation.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- Author Charles C. Mann
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2005-08-09
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781400040063 / 140004006X
- Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.6 in (24.13 x 16.76 x 4.06 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 15th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects America - Antiquities, Indians - Origin
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004061547
- Dewey Decimal Code 970.011
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 08/01/2005, Page 1986
- Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2006, Page 8
- Ingram Advance, 08/01/2005, Page 61
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2005, Page 625
- Library Journal, 08/15/2005, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 04/01/2005, Page 72
- Multicultural Review, 06/01/2006, Page 81
- New York Review of Books, 12/01/2005, Page 43
- New York Times, 10/09/2005, Page 21
- Publishers Weekly, 06/20/2005, Page 69
- Science Books & Films, 01/01/2006, Page 23
- Time, 12/26/2005, Page 177
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