new revelations of the americas before columbus

Published by Vintage (2006) ISBN 10: 1400032059 ISBN 13: 9781400032051 New Softcover Quantity: 13 Seller: Lakeside Books (Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. Fascinating book revising assumptions regarding ancient America: 1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Mann, Charles C. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man's first feat of genetic engineering. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. the year before Columbus arrived in the New World, as Charles Mann described it in his book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.23. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.Ĭontrary 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.

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. Our founding myth suggests the Americas were a lightly populated wilderness before Europeans arrived. In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

New revelations of the americas before columbus