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Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water,...
2) Anasazi
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the day-to-day life of the Anasazi Indians.
Author
Series
University of California publications in archaeology and ethnology volume 25, no. 1
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
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7) National Geographic investigates ancient Pueblo: archeology unlocks the secretes of America's past
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
10) Ancient America
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
1990-
Language
English
Description
Maps and text offer information on the cultures and histories of native groups in both North and South America.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An illustrated examination of the forces that help cities grow and eventually cause their destruction is told through the histories of ancient American civilizations, documenting the rise and fall of booming cultures that once thrived on the sites of well-known modern cities.
12) Chaco Canyon
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.
13) A thief of time
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Chilling discoveries unearthed at a dig for Navajo clay pots bring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to the site and put them on the trail of stolen artifacts, a disappearing woman, and bizarre and mystifying murders.
"Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “All of Tony Hillerman’s Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous.”٬٢٠١٤؛USA...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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 pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.
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