San Antonio College Library

Contains 56 maps, 329 illustrations, and accompanying text describing ancient American art, history, and archaeology.

This in-depth account of the Indian cultures of the American continent of 1492 will be a timely choice for the coming quincentennial celebration of Columbus's discovery of America. Salmoral presents a well-organized, thoroughly researched description of the Inca, Aztec, and Mayan societies of Latin America, and also of the native cultures of the U. S. Southwest. Catchy, appealing headlines for each topic, a lively style of writing, and thousands of...

"This richly illustrated book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder...

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...