They came before Columbus : the African presence in ancient America / Ivan Van Sertima
By: Van Sertima, Ivan.
Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003Edition: Random House trade paperback edition.Description: xviii, 284 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780812968170.Subject(s): Africans -- America -- History -- To 1500 | Indians -- African influences | Blacks -- America -- History | America -- Discovery and exploration -- African | America -- AntiquitiesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | E109.A35 V36 2003 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012222 |
Originally published: ©1976
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Author's note -- The secret route from Guinea -- The visible witnesses -- The mariner prince of Mali -- Africans across the sea -- Among the Quetzalcoatls -- Mandingo traders in medieval Mexico -- Black Africa and Egypt -- The black kings of the twenty-fifth dynasty -- African-Egyptian presences in ancient America -- Plants and transplants -- Smoking, tobacco, and pipes in Africa and America -- The mystery of Mu-lan-p'i -- Postscript on other finds
Examines cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans, offering evidence of the presence of African explorers in the New World centuries before the arrival of Columbus