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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction: Holmberg’s Mistake
Chapter 1: A View from Above
IN THE BENI
HOLMBERG’S MISTAKE
“EMPTY OF MANKIND AND ITS WORKS”
THE OTHER NEOLITHIC REVOLUTIONS
A GUIDED TOUR
Part 1: Numbers from Nowhere?
Chapter 2: Why Billington Survived
THE FRIENDLY INDIAN
COMING OF AGE IN THE DAWNLAND
TOURISM AND TREACHERY
THE PLACE OF THE SKULL
MACHINATIONS
Chapter 3: In the Land of Four Quarters
“LIKE A CLUB RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES”
TAWANTINSUYU
THE GILDED LITTER OF THE INKA
VIRGIN SOIL
AN ARITHMETICAL PROGRESSION
Chapter 4: Frequently Asked Questions
NOT ENOUGH FOR YANKEE STADIUM
THE GENETICS OF VULNERABILITY
“OUR EYES WERE APPALLED WITH TERROR”
FLOWERS AND SONG
ASSIGNING BLAME
ISN’T THIS ALL JUST REVISIONISM?
Part 2: Very Old Bones
Chapter 5: Pleistocene Wars
POSSIBLY A VERY ODD HAPLOGROUP
LOST TRIBES
“BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND”
FOLSOM AND THE GRAYBEARDS
THE CLOVIS CONSENSUS
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE
COAST TO COAST
HUGGING THE SHORE
Chapter 6: Cotton (or Anchovies) and Maize
BIG BUILDING
THE COTTON AGE
TINY COBS
THE STUPIDEST QUESTION IN THE WORLD
Chapter 7: Writing, Wheels, and Bucket Brigades
“LIKE GRAPES THEY FALL OFF”
RUBBER PEOPLE
COUNTING AND WRITING
FROM 1-EARTHQUAKE TO 8-DEER
WHEELED INTERLUDE
A SLICE OF PERU
MAKING THE WAK’A
Part 3: Landscape with Figures
Chapter 8: Made in America
ENTERING THE WATER
“GETTING ALONG WITH NATURE”
FIRE PLACE
TEN THOUSAND MOUNDS
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN BOTTOM
HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR
Chapter 9: Amazonia
WHAT ORELLANA SAW
GREEN PRISON
PAINTED ROCK CAVE
RAINDROP PHYSICS
GIFT FROM THE PAST
Chapter 10: The Artificial Wilderness
A THOUSAND KUDZUS EVERYWHERE
ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR BIRDS
NOVEL SHORES
Coda
Chapter 11: The Great Law of Peace
Afterword to the Vintage Edition
Appendixes
A. Loaded Words
B. Talking Knots
C. The Syphilis Exception
D. Calendar Math
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Map Credits
Illustration Credits
About the Author
Also by Charles C. Mann
Acclaim for Charles C. Mann’s 1491
Copyright
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