He joins us now from the studios of WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts. Mann compiled evidence of the sophistication of pre-Columbian America. In his new book titled "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus," Charles C. Research of the past few decades suggests, though, that the Americas were home to more people than Europe when Columbus landed and that most lived in complex, highly organized societies. That's what most of us learned in school, along with a few paragraphs about more highly developed cultures in Central and South America. What were the Americas like in 1491, before Columbus landed? Our founding myths suggest the hemisphere was sparsely populated mostly by nomadic tribes living lightly on the land and that the land was, for the most part, a vast wilderness. This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
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