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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 Tenochtitl©Łn, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitl©Łn, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists brought about and the firestorm it ignited.
J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there? At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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 pyramidshundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Suggests that the first men were of the pebble tool chopper tradition who used stone projectile points on wide-ranging big hunts. Furthermore he believes they were the antecedents of the Asian immigrants previously thought to have been the primal tribe on the continent.
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
This book focuses on some puzzles, who "discovered" America, how and when the first settlers came, who built the New World pyramids, and Lost Cities that have intrigued historians, archaeologists, and laymen over the centuries.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
In the 12th Century, a Welsh prince and his band of men sail to America where they intermarry with Indian women to form a colony. The novel chronicles the colony's rise and fall, including the fate of its descendants, an Indian tribe near the Ohio River whose members have flaxen hair and grey-blue eyes. A story based on a Welsh legend. By the author of Follow the River.