Runs Like cougar
Charles Mann pro-Colombian book looks at new revelations archaeologists and Anthropologist snow feel of native American life before contact with Europeans. Mann points out throughout this book that European scholars once refused to believe that natives in the Americas had no real history but more excavation reveals the ability o native Americans to build canals and mounds and impressive housing to survive the varied elements of the diverse Americas climate.
The ability of plant domestication on part of the natives in creating maize as we now it today also in a genius feat these often over-looked peoples were able to contribute to humanity. Charles Mann book "1491" studies the lifestyle and life of Mayan Indians and Cahokia's inhabitants in North America and loos at further evidence that these societies were much more advanced than previously thought. The book also describes the complex fishing methods of Natives along with the slash and burn techniques of forest management among other innovative Indian methods of creating the proper ecosystem balance. the Indians arrived by new theory a millennial earlier than previously believed and these people shaped the lands around them in many different ways that are now just being understood by researchers like professor Mann. The indigenous population also was much large than people previously estimated and Mann informs his reader that status symbols of fiber and metal jewelry predominated over the European metallurgy for sharp weapons thus opening up the Inca Empire to quick defeat by the Spanish. Mann's look t the Inca man and civilization and his chapter is the highlight of this excellent academic read and newer interpretation of American indigenous ingenuity and adaptability
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