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• ljc - Jan 08 2008 | book, history

  i'm getting really into this book.

  Quoted: Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.

  • emilyml - Jan 08 2008
    

    whoa, sounds cool!

  • ChrisWei - Jan 10 2008
    

    Great book, isn't it!
• ChrisWei - Sep 28 2006 | history, books, indians

  An excellent book. A 'revisionist' history about American Indians, both South and North. It provides an easy to read and well-written summary of the latest archaelogical findings. The overall theme could be described as 'before 1492, there were a LOT more Indians, living in much bigger cities, with much richer cultures, than we ever realized before". But the details are fascinating. Highly recommended.

  Quoted: Amazon.com: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus: Books: Charles C. Mann by Charles C. Mann

  • milolutz - Sep 29 2006
    

    I watched Pat Buchannan on The Colbert Report the other night, warning us that American indians had liberal immigration policy, and look what happened. Ugh.

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