Ancient Americas: the great civilisations / Nicholas J. Saunders.
- Title
- Ancient Americas: the great civilisations / Nicholas J. Saunders.
- Published by
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, 2004.
- Author
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- Description
- viii, 248 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-242) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain