Myths of Pre-Columbian America
Author : Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 161530150X
Presents a history of ancient American civilizations prior to the arrival of Columbus, discussing history, agriculture, religion, architecture, art, and politics.
Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307265722
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.
Author : Colin McEwan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Central America
ISBN : 9780884024705
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.
Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2011-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759120064
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.
Author : Joanne Randolph
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766089800
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.
Author : Rebecca Roanhorse
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1534437673
NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 HUGO AWARDS AND THE 2020 NEBULA AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic. A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain. Crafted with unforgettable characters, Rebecca Roanhorse has created an epic adventure exploring the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in the most original series debut of the decade.
Author : Kenn Hirth
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Indians of Central America
ISBN : 9780884023869
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.
Author : Hasso Von Winning
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 196?
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810947511
Author : Cottie Arthur Burland
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN :