Ancient Americas: the great civilisations / Nicholas J. Saunders.

Title
  1. Ancient Americas: the great civilisations / Nicholas J. Saunders.
Published by
  1. Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, 2004.
Author
  1. Saunders, Nicholas J.

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Description
  1. viii, 248 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "In this book, Nicholas J. Saunders explores, among others, the Moche, Nazca, Teotihuacan, Maya, Aztec and Inka cultures who - developing in isolation from the rest of the world for thousands of years - had created highly sophisticated civilisations without the wheel, draught animals or metal tools. From the first settlements of the Olmecs in Mesoamerica, and South America's great mud-brick cities on Peru's Pacific coast, to the arrival of the Spanish in 1519, the book's unparalleled breadth and scope allow us to appreciate the Pre-Columbian Americas as among the world's greatest flowerings of civilisation."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Indians of Mexico > Civilization
  2. Indians of Central America > Civilization
  3. Indians of South America > Civilization
  4. Mexico > History > To 1519
  5. Central America > History > To 1821
  6. South America > History > To 1806
  7. Latin America > Antiquities
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-242) and index.
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