1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus

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Label

1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus

Title remainder

new revelations of the Americas before Columbus

Statement of responsibility

Charles C. Mann

Creator

• trueMann, Charles C

Author

• trueMann, Charles C

Subject

• Indians -- History
• Indians -- Origin
• Indigenous peoples -- Antiquities
• Indigenous peoples -- History
• trueAmerica -- Antiquities
• Indigenous peoples -- Origin
• Indians -- Antiquities

Language

eng

Summary

Mann 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

970.01/1

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E61

LC item number

.M266 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult