![]() Many scholars now insist that native settlement began at least 20,000 years ago, when fishing peoples arrived in small, open boats from coastal Siberia. In 1491, Mann introduces readers to the controversies provoked by the latest scholarship on native America before European exploration and colonization. That persistent story troubled Mann, who, as a correspondent for Science and the Atlantic Monthly, had encountered dramatic new evidence for a radically different history of pre-Columbian America. ![]() ![]() "When my son entered school, was taught the same things I had been taught," Mann discovered. Living in small bands of big-game hunters, they barely affected a wilderness that endured until 1492, when Christopher Columbus initiated a period of European colonization that transformed the Americas, introducing historic change to timeless, primeval continents. Mann learned that the original American Indians migrated from Asia during an Ice Age about 13,000 years ago. New Revelations of the Americas Before ColumbusĪs a schoolboy, Charles C. ![]()
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