Among them:? In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.
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. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Topics Native Americans, Indians, Aztec, Columbus Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. Mann Full Pages.Ī 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. This book presents a study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
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