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Roundup

8-21-05

Mann's "1491" explores the Americas before Columbus

Our founding myth suggests the Americas were a lightly populated wilderness before Europeans arrived. Historian Charles C. Mann compiled evidence of a far more complex and populous pre-Columbian society. He tells John Ydstie about "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus."

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