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Sep 26, 2011 · The author 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.
Oct 10, 2006 · A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he is the recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. His 1491 won the National Academies Communication Award for the best book of the year. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Oct 10, 2006 · Fascinating book revising assumptions regarding ancient America: 1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. In 1491 there were more people in the Americas (100 million +) than in Europe with vast cities thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
- Charles C. Mann
- $14.7
- Vintage
Oct 9, 2005 · Oct. 9, 2005. 1491. New Revelations of the Americas. Before Columbus. By Charles C. Mann. Illustrated. 462 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. MOST of us know, or think we know, what the first Europeans ...
Oct 10, 2008 · Charles C. Mann. Paw Prints, Oct 10, 2008 - History - 541 pages. In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a ...
- Charles C. Mann
- Paw Prints, 2008
- reprint
Feb 8, 2024 · by Charles C. Mann and Charles Mann. A 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 ...
Oct 10, 2006 · —The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating.... A landmark of a book that drops ingrained images of colonial American into the dustbin, one after the other.” —The Boston Globe “A ripping, man-on-the-ground tour of a world most of us barely intuit.... An exhilarating shift in perspective.... 1491 erases our myth of a wilderness Eden ...
