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Science 2 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5778, p. 1313
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128736
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Picturing the Pre-Columbian Americas

Dean R. Snow

1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
Knopf, New York, 2005. 478 pp. $30, C$40. ISBN 1-4000-4006-X.

Ancient Americans
Rewriting the History of the New World
Granta, London, 2005. £20. ISBN 1-86207-617-0.

Pulling together disparate data from archaeology, history, genetics, and ecology, the author discusses the state of human civilizations in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.
The reviewer is at the Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 409 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: drs17{at}psu.edu

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