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Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramidshundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.
Author
Pub. Date
[c1960]
Description
Built by Indian societies centuries before the first white men ever set foot in America, the Mounds, which spread from the Atlantic coast to lower California, and Mississippi and Missouri River Valleys, were of great interest to all the early explorers. Who the tribes were, who made the Mounds, what they were intended for, and what was discovered when people dug into them, is what the author explains in this book for young people.
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Did a race of ancient giants once inhabit the Americas? Analyzing the historical and archaeological evidence, this title provides ample proof that our ancestors in the ancient Americas were much taller and a lot more mysterious than we imagine. Their exploits inspired the Native Americans to keep oral accounts of these mysterious giants who left behind strange artifacts, massive cities of burial mounds, and the remains of a vast copper-mining network....