Presents an examination of the geographic, cultural, and human landscape of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492, and includes information from historical and archaeological perspectives that offers a new view of pre-Columbian America.
An unabridged republication of an article from the "Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1926-1927, " which details the use of nearly two hundred plants for food, natural cures, and native crafts.