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List of Maps | |
Preface | |
Introduction Holmberg’s Mistake | |
A View from Above | |
Numbers from Nowhere? | |
Why Billington Survived | |
In the Land of Four Quarters | |
Frequently Asked Questions | |
p. Very Old Bones | |
Pleistocene Wars | |
Cotton (or Anchovies) and Maize (Tales of Two Civilizations, Part I) | |
Writing, Wheels, and Bucket Brigades (Tales of Two Civilizations, Part II) | |
Landscape with Figures | |
Made in America | |
Amazonia | |
The Artificial Wilderness | |
The Great Law of Peace | |
Appendixes | |
Loaded Words | |
Talking Knots | |
The Syphilis Exception | |
Calendar Math | |
Acknowledgments | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
From the Hardcover edition | |
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