1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback), by Charles C. Mann, describes the history of the Americas before the European’s arrival dramatically altered the population and environment. This book explores in detail how the Americas were not virgin wilderness, untrammeled by all but a handful of nomadic primitive tribes, but a teeming land filled with advanced civilizations that had imposed significant alterations on the ecosystem to support their sophisticated societies