TY - BOOK AU - Mann, Charles TI - Before Columbus: : the Americas of 1491 SN - 9780545307277 AV - 970.01 M31b 2010 PY - 2009///, 2010 CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Indians KW - Origin KW - History KW - Antiquities KW - Anthropology KW - America N1 - Lex: 1080 N2 - 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 pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests ER -