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New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Mann, Charles. C. Publisher: Vintage, USA
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 542pp ISBN: 978-1-4000-3205-1
Library of Congress Number: E61.M266 Dewey: 970.01'1--dc22
Resource Type: Book
A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Holmberg's Mistake
1. A View from Above
Part One: Numbers from Nowhere?
2. Why Billington Survived
3. In The Land of Four Quarters
4. Frequently Asked Questions
Part Two: Very Old Bones
5. Pleistocene Wars
6. Cotton (or Anchovies) and Maize (Tales of Two Civilizations, Part I)
7. Writing, Wheels, and Bucket Brigades (Tales of Two Civilizations, Part II)
Part Three: Landscape with Figures
8. Made in America
9. Amazonia
10. The Artificial Wilderness
11. The Great Law of Peace
Afterword to the Vintage Edition
Appendixes
A. Loaded Words
B. Talking Knots
C. The Syphilis Exception
D. Calendar Math
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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