Ancient America: in Notes on American Archaeology

First published in 1871, Ancient America delivers the earliest comprehensive English¿language survey of North America's prehistoric past. Baldwin synthesizes scattered accounts-from the fluted¿point hunters of the Paleo¿Indian era to the monumental earthworks of the Mississippi¿Valley “Mound Builders,” and onward to the pyramidal cities of Mexico and Central America-into a single, lucid narrative. Rejecting then¿common Eurocentric myths, he argues that these civilizations were “wholly origi...