Neither are new books, but this year I both read and subsequently gifted * 1491 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus) * Stranger in a Strange Land (the "Original, Uncut version") https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Robert-Heinlein... (https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Robert-Heinlein/dp/1442005831) 1491 is about the societies in the Americas prior to European contact. And if anyone knows of any books on the topic that have been written since then (and thus are even more up-to-date with the current state of the field), I'm very, very interested.…
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