Atlas of the North American Indian

Atlas of the North American Indian
Author: Carl Waldman
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438126719

Presents an illustrated reference that covers the history, culture and tribal distribution of North American Indians.

Historical Atlas of Ancient America

Historical Atlas of Ancient America
Author: Norman Bancroft-Hunt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780816047833

Traces the history of Mesoamerican civilization covering its origins, peoples, art, beliefs, conquests, and mythology.

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations
Author: John Haywood
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2005-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations explores the world's earliest cultures, from the farming settlements of Mesopotamia to the Americas and Polynesia, via the birth of Greek city states and the foundation of Rome. It examines the development of civilizations in the Near East - Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian - as well as those in Europe - the Minoans, Etruscans and Celts. Across the continents of Africa, Asia and America, it covers such subjects as Egypt from its pre-dynastic roots to the age of the Pharaohs, China during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the great cities of the Incas and Aztecs. Vivid descriptions of civilizations are complemented by discussion of such key topics as colonization, agriculture and technology, and the rise of empires and city states. Richly illustrated with timelines, photographs, artwork re-creations and full-colour maps, this is an illuminating and multi-faceted one-volume introduction to early peoples and the worlds they created. - Back cover.

The Penguin Atlas of North American History

The Penguin Atlas of North American History
Author: Colin McEvedy
Publisher: Puffin
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780140511284

Traces the history of North America from the first appearance of man to 1870, with maps showing the development of native civilization, the arrival of European settlers, and the formative years of the U.S.

Historical Atlas of Ancient Mesopotamia

Historical Atlas of Ancient Mesopotamia
Author: Norman Bancroft-Hunt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780816057306

Uses maps, text, and illustrations to present the history of the area known as the Fertile Crescent, the Ancient Near East, and Mesopotamia, from its earliest period in the fifth millennium B.C.E. through the Sassanian Empire.

Atlas of a Lost World

Atlas of a Lost World
Author: Craig Childs
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307908666

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia and North America, but the land bridge was not the only way across. Different people arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time. The first explorers of the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. The continent they reached had no people but was inhabited by megafauna—mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, five-hundred-pound panthers, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. The first people were hunters—Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the proteins of their prey—but they were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals. Atlas of a Lost World chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans’ chances for survival. A blend of science and personal narrative reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Across unexplored landscapes yet to be peopled, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.