America Before Columbus
Released: November 22, 2009Runtime: 91 min
History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn’t exactly a New World, but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways.
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Nathan English
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Victor Garber
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Andrew C Isenberg
as Self - Historian, Temple University
K J Linhein
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Hans Mittermuller
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Joachim Radkau
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Callum Roberts
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Nicholas E Schultz
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