Author: Charles C. Mann
Description (Audible): Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍
My Review: Fantastic book. This book as well as its sequel, 1493, should be required reading for anyone who wants to truly understand America (Northern, Central and Southern). I highly recommend this book.
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