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New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Publisher:  Vintage, USA
Year Published:  2005
Pages:  542pp   ISBN:  978-1-4000-3205-1
Library of Congress Number:  E61.M266   Dewey:  970.01'1--dc22
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX9375

A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.

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Table of Contents
Preface

Introduction: Holmberg's Mistake
1. A View from Above

Part One: Numbers from Nowhere?
2. Why Billington Survived
3. In The Land of Four Quarters
4. Frequently Asked Questions

Part Two: Very Old Bones
5. Pleistocene Wars
6. Cotton (or Anchovies) and Maize (Tales of Two Civilizations, Part I)
7. Writing, Wheels, and Bucket Brigades (Tales of Two Civilizations, Part II)

Part Three: Landscape with Figures
8. Made in America
9. Amazonia
10. The Artificial Wilderness

11. The Great Law of Peace

Afterword to the Vintage Edition
Appendixes
A. Loaded Words
B. Talking Knots
C. The Syphilis Exception
D. Calendar Math
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Subject Headings

• Aboriginal People
• Agricultural History
• Agriculture
• Agriculture/Ecology
• Amazon
• Central America
• Central American & Caribbean Research
• Colonialism
• Corn
• Demographic Research
• Demographic Statistics
• Demographic Trends/North America
• Demography
• Disease
• Ecological Awareness
• Ecological Consciousness
• Ecological Wisdom
• Ecologically Wise Practices
• Epidemics
• Equality
• European History
• Fire
• First Nations
• Genetics
• Inca
• Indian Art
• Aboriginal Anthropology
• Indigenous Communities
• Indigenous Culture
• Indigenous History
• Indigenous Peoples
• Indigenous Studies
• Influenza
• Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
• Latin America
• Mexico
• Mummies
• Native Languages
• Native Peoples
• North America
• North American History
• Pigs
• Population Estimates
• Population Geography
• Religion
• Religion & Society
• Religious History
• Smallpox
• South America
• Treaties
• Treaty Negotiations
• Treaty Rights
• Tuberculosis
• U.S. History