Author: Donald Alexander MackenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Myths of Pre-Columbian America
Author: Donald Alexander MackenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Pre-Columbian America
Author: Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and CulturePublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 161530150X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents a history of ancient American civilizations prior to the arrival of Columbus, discussing history, agriculture, religion, architecture, art, and politics.
1493
Author: Charles C. MannPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307265722
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.
Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador
Author: Colin McEwanPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884024705
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador: Toward an Integrated Approach presents current research on the prehispanic indigenous peoples in the lands between Mesoamerica and the Andes. Specialists have contributed to this illustrated book on topics ranging from historical and theoretical perspectives to reports on recent excavations.
Polynesians in America
Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759120064
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings. Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America.
Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World
Author: Kenn HirthPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884023869
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This title examines the structure, scale and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands and the central Andes.
Peoples of the Sun
Author: Cottie Arthur BurlandPublisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Living and Working in the Pre-Columbian Americas
Author: Joanne RandolphPublisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766089800
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Everyone knows Europeans did not discover the Americas, despite what Christopher Columbus may have believed. People had been living there for thousands of years before the first Europeans landed on its shores. This title explores the ancient civilizations, including the Incas and Mayas, that peopled the North and South American continents long ago.
Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America
Author: Hasso Von WinningPublisher:
ISBN: 9780810947511
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America
Author: Clarissa ConferPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Draws on historical and archaeological research to describe what life was like in North America in the time before Columbus landed, exploring the people's religious beliefs, social structure, hunting, housing, food, dress, and traditions.