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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann  
Powells.com Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to...
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Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners
by Tom Koppel Publisher Comments For decades the issue seemed moot. The first settlers, we were told, were big-game hunters who arrived from Asia at the end of the Ice Age some 12,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge at the Bering Strait and migrating south through an ice-free passage...
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Columbus's Outpost Among the Tainos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498
by Kathleen Deagan Synopsis In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the queen of Spain, but just five years...
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Palaces and Power in the Americas: From Peru to the Northwest Coast
by Jessica Jo Christie Publisher Comments Ancient American palaces still captivate those who stand before them. Even in their fallen and ruined condition, the palaces project such power that, according to the editors of this new collection, it must have been deliberately drawn into their formal...
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The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory
by Thomas D Dillehay Publisher Comments Who were the first Americans? Where did they come from, when did they get here, and how did they settle the Americas? Until three years ago, the “Clovis” people were credited as the pioneers, arriving across the Bering land bridge at the end...
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The First American: The Suppressed Story of the People Who Discovered the New World
by Christopher Hardaker Synopsis Forty years ago, an amateur historian discovered an engraved mastodon bone near Mexico City, showing a virtual bestiary from the Ice Age. Harvard University took notice and excavated nearby sites around the Valsequillo Reservoir. They found perfectly...
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Stolen Continents: 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
by Ronald Wright Publisher Comments Powerful and passionate, Stolen Continents is a history of the Americas unlike any other. This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of and#64257;ve great American cultures — Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and...
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The first Americans
by Juan Schobinger Book News Annotation Originally published in Italian (1994: Editoriale Jaca Book spa, Milan). The author, an archaeologist affiliated with the University of Cujo in Argentina, writes for a general audience. The scope is broad: coverage of the origin, history, and culture...
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New World Archaeology & Culture History: Collected Essays & Articles
by Gordon R Willey Book News Annotation Thirty papers from Willey's (archaeology, Harvard) 40-year career. He introduces each section with an explanation of the state of the field and his own ideas at the time of writing, and how each has changed since then. Focuses on Central and South...
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Prehistory of the Americas
by Stuart J Fiedel Publisher Comments An analysis of the development of the prehistoric cultures of North, Central and South America from c.10,000 BC-AD 1530....
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Ancient America
by Michael D Coe Description Includes bibliographic references (p. 226-227) and index....
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The journey from Eden :the peopling of our world
by Brian M Fagan Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-247) and index....
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Encounters with the Americas
by Rosemary A Joyce Publisher Comments Historic black-and-white photographs and striking color images of archaeological and ethnographic objects enhance this introduction to one of the world's most significant Central and South American anthropological collection. Encounters with the...
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Prehistory of the Americas
by Stuart Fiedel
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Archaeology in Western Samoa Volume 2
by R C Green
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Early man in the New World;
by Kenneth Macgowan
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Southwest Museum Papers Number Four: Archeological Explorations in Southern Nevada
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Mysteries of the ancient Americas :the New World before Columbus.
by Readers Digest
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Ancient America
by Time Life
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Civilization in the Ancient Americas: Essays in Honor of Gordon R. Willey
by Richard M Leventhal
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