1491

  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    By Charles C. Mann

    Sidrys, R., and R. Berger 1979. “Lowland Maya Radiocarbon Dates and the Classic Maya Collapse.” Nature 277:269–77. Siegel, R. K., et al. 1977. “On the Use of Tagetes lucida and Nicotiana rustica as a Huichol Smoking Mixture: The Aztec ...

  • 1491: The Americas Before Columbus
    By Charles C. Mann

    In recent years, scholars have come to contest long held views on Native American life before Columbus landed in 1491. Charles Mann examines concepts of trade, technological advancement and diversity...

  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    By Charles C. Mann

    Mann 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...

  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    By Charles C. 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...

  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    By Charles C. Mann

    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...