The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas (The Cambridge history of the Native Peoples of the Americas)
Contributors: Richard E. W. Adams (Editor); Murdo J. MacLeod (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780521351652
Subjects: American history; Central American & Caribbean archaeology; History: World; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); Native American Anthropology; History - General History; Central America; Indians; Native American; History / Native American; Indians of North America--History; Eskimos; Anthropology - Cultural; History; Indians of North America
First sentence: Mystified about the origins and cultural development of the strange people they called los indios, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Mesoamerica could do little more than speculate.