"Pre-Contact North America"
Dr. Brian DeLay
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley

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Brian DeLay link Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, is the author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (2008). His research concentrates on connections between independent native peoples and the interlocked histories of American nation states.

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• Article: "1491" by Charles C. Mann from March 2002 Atlantic Magazine Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact (link to the article)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/2445/