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Forgotten Landscapes: How Native Americans Created Pre-Columbian North America and What We Can Learn from It

Forgotten Landscapes: How Native Americans Created Pre-Columbian North America and What We Can Learn from It

Rice, Stanley A.

Hardcover

Native American HistoryHistory & Philosophy of Science

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1493088661
ISBN13: 9781493088669
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Rediscover the thriving civilizations of Pre-Columbian America and learn how Native ingenuity transformed the landscape into a flourishing world we can still learn from today

North America was not empty nor were its inhabitants savages when Europeans arrived in 1492. Quite the opposite, North America was thickly populated by indigenous people who lived in clean cities, had a thriving economy, and transformed the landscape into bountiful productivity. Forgotten Landscapes reveals the incredible extent to which Native Americans manipulated and shaped their surrounding environs through agricultural practices and urban engineering, resulting in one of the most prosperous civilizations of their time.

Well before European contact, North American cities and villages were bound together by an intricate trade network. Today, Spiro Mound in rural Oklahoma is a few piles of dirt, not on the road to anywhere. But at the time of the Mississippian civilization, about a thousand years ago, it was one of the largest cities in the world. With the controlled use of fire, Native Americans had transformed thick forests into open woodlands and expanded the ranges of prairies. Through organized hunting, Natives controlled the populations of prey animals such as passenger pigeons, and when Native populations grew large enough, they developed agriculture including irrigated crops, and even orchards.

In this fascinating and overdue book, author Stanley A. Rice shows readers the Pre-Columbian landscape of America that has been largely forgotten.

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