1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. It was the 2006 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public's understanding of topics in science, …
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. It was the 2006 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public's understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine. The book presents recent research findings from different fields which suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought. The author notes that, according to these findings, two of the first six independent centers of civilization arose in the Americas: the first, Norte Chico or Caral-Supe, in present-day northern Peru; and that of formative-era Mesoamerica in what is now southern Mexico.
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
480 pages
English language
Published Aug. 9, 2005
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- 978-1-4000-4006-3Copied ISBN!
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1491: Una nueva historia de las Américas antes de Colón
632 pages
English language
Published Aug. 13, 2013
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- 978-1-60980-515-9Copied ISBN!
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
563 pages
English language
Published Oct. 10, 2006
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- 978-1-4000-3205-1Copied ISBN!
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- 39020
1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
English language
Published 2005
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- 978-0-7394-6441-0Copied ISBN!
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- 39021
1491: Nouvelles Révélations sur les Amériques avant Christophe Colomb
480 pages
French language
Published Feb. 1, 2007 by Éditions Albin Michel.
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- 978-2-226-17592-2Copied ISBN!
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- 2180052
1491 : Amerikka ennen Kolumbusta
600 pages
Finnish language
Published 2011
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- 978-952-264-076-5Copied ISBN!
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- 17201804
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