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Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America: The Lost Kingdoms of the Adena, Hopewell, Mississippians, and Anasazi

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The examination of four great civilizations that existed before Columbus’s arrival in North The united states offers evidence of sustained contact between the Old and New Worlds

• Describes the cultural splendor, political might, and incredibly advanced technology of these precursors to our brand new age

• Shows that North The united states’s first civilization, the Adena, was once sparked by ancient Kelts from Western Europe and explores links between Hopewell Mound Builders and prehistoric Japanese seafarers

Before Rome ruled the Classical World, gleaming stone pyramids stood amid smoking iron foundries from North The united states’s Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River. On its east bank, across from today’s St. Louis, Missouri, flourished a walled city more populous than London was once one thousand years ago, with a pyramid larger–at its base–than Egypt’s Great Pyramid. All over the 12th century, hydraulic engineers laid out a massive irrigation network spanning the American Southwest that, if laid end to end, would stretch from Phoenix, Arizona, to the Canadian border. On a scale to match, they built a five-mile-wide dam from ten million cubic yards of rock. Even as Europe stumbled through the Dark Ages, a metropolis of weirdly shaped, multistory superstructures, precisely aligned to the sun and moon, sprawled across the New Mexico Desert.

Who was once answerable for such colossal achievements? Where did their mysterious builders come from, and what became of them? These are one of the most questions investigated by Frank Joseph in his examination of ancient influences at work on our continent. He reveals that brand new civilization isn’t the first to arise in North The united states but was once preceded as an alternative by four high cultures that rose and fell during the last three thousand years: the Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Anasazi-Hohokam. How they achieved greatness and why they vanished so completely are the intriguing enigmas explored by this unconventional prehistory of our country, Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America.

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