Before and after Columbus: disaster and reinvention

Reviews of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann

These books are predominantly based on archaeological and scientific evidence, a deep look at the way that Amerindians lived before and after the encounter with Europeans; the degree to which they controlled and shaped their environment; how the entire world changed when it entered the Homogenocene era, according to which man and not nature predominantl…