A recommendation for the book 1491 (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491). It covers a lot of ground in 5

A recommendation for the book 1491 (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491). It covers a lot of ground in 500 pages but spends at least a chapter on various theories for how the Americas were first populated (and whether they were populated multiple times). Later chapters focus on major New World cultures. I thought I knew a fair bit about the pre-contact Americas but I learned a lot