出版社: Knopf
副标题: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
出版年: 09 August, 2005
页数: 480
定价: $30.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400040063
内容简介 · · · · · ·
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived s...
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them:
• In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.
• Certain cities–such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital–were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets.
• The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
• Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as “man’s first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering.”
• Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it–a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge.
• Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively “landscaped” by human beings.
Mann sheds clarifying light on the methods used to arrive at these new visions of the pre-Columbian Americas and how they have affected our understanding of our history and our thinking about the environment. His book is an exciting and learned account of scientific inquiry and revelation.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
查尔斯·C·曼恩是《大西洋月刊》、《科学》和《连线》杂志的撰稿人。他也为《财富》杂志、《纽约时报》、《史密森尼》、《名利场》、《华盛顿邮报》供过稿,还为HBO电视台的连续剧《法律与秩序》撰写过脚本。作为曾三次进入美国国家杂志奖决赛的作者,曼恩至今已被美国律师协会、美国物理研究会、阿尔弗雷德·P·斯隆基金会和兰南基金会授予过与写作相关的奖项。《1491》赢得了美国国家学院传播奖的年度最佳图书奖。他住在马萨诸塞州的阿姆赫斯特。
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