![]() ![]() Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. Mann brings together in 1491, different stories have been emerging. For decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whose discoveries Charles C. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on describe the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated by primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans. Publisher: Knopf | 2005 | ISBN: 140004006X | EPUB | 480 pages | 5.6 MBÄ¡491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. Mann, "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus"
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