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Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities -- such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital -- were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
2) Shawnee Minisink: a stratified Paleoindian-Archaic site in the Upper Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania
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Publisher
Academic Press
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Author
Series
National Park mystery volume 6
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Hounded by false accusations of murder, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family risk their lives to track down an unknown killer on the loose in a rugged canyon on the remote western edge of Mesa Verde National Park, where ancient stone villages and secret burial sites, abandoned centuries ago by the Ancestral Puebloan people, harbor artifacts so rare and precious they're worth killing over"--
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Publisher
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The history of North America, from Christopher Columbus to the present day, is a chaotic struggle for ownership of the land. This text will address questions such as the history of native communities that were displaced or conquered, and even further back to how Native North, Central and South Americans came to these continents in the first place. Historical facts are mainly supported through archaeological findings."--Publisher information.
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Jamestown 2007 trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Archeological Society of Virginia
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Occasional paper volume no. 7
Publisher
Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
11) Perspectives on the archaeology of pipes, tobacco and other smoke plants in the ancient Americas
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
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