The Truth About Native Americans before Europeans Arrived

Archaeologists are finding that the Americas before Columbus were very different than we initially believed. New discoveries in a wide variety of fields are finding that long-standing concepts of the pre-Colombian world are very different from what we thought. So what has changed?

What we call the "new" world is actually really ancient with lots of amazing history often not given attention. This series tells those stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmE2NhnJ6UQ&list=PLnpoOo7lhNnEH2BTyMa4aqkjd_qQbxXuE

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This video is based on Charles C Mann's 1491. For a more in-depth discussion of the things I mention in this whirlwind of a video, I suggest giving it a read! You can get it here: http://amzn.to/2axJr7N

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