Название:The First Americans: The Pre-Columbian Civilizations
Автор: G.H.S. Bushnell
Издательство: Thames and Hudson
Год: 1968
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 146
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 22 MB
Язык: English
When Columbus arrived in America in 1492 he found a culture possessing many features which the Spanish invaders understood: hierarchical states rulers living in splendour, fine buildings, specialist craftsmen and a religion that dominated the lives of the population. Yet the Spaniards must have been astonished that so civilized a people lacked iron, the wheel, the plough, an alphabet and domestic animals. Our knowledge of the ancient American civilizations (from prehistory to 1492) has been transformed during the last 25 years.
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