01072nam a2200265Ia 450000500170000000800590001724500640007610000180014026000420015830000370020030000100023750000140024702000180026165000200027965000210029965000250032065100250034565000170037005000210038754600150040852003480042333600090077133700150078033800110079520260803094216.0251212s2010    xx            000 0 und d2009, 2009, 2009, 1 aBefore Columbus: bthe Americas of 1491 /cCharles C. Mann.  aMann, Charles  aNew York :bScholastic,cc2009, 2010.  a117 pages: bcolor illustrations  c23 cm  aLex: 1080  a9780545307277  aIndiansxOrigin  aIndiansxHistory  aIndiansxAntiquities  aAmericaxAntiquities  aAnthropology  a970.01 M31b 2010  ain English  aThis 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 pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.  atext  aunmediated  avolume