Published in 1880, this survey gathers what was then known of the mound-builders of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, the cliff-dwellers of the Southwest and the temple cities of Mexico and Central America. Short weighs the many theories of where the first Americans came from and how their civilisations developed.
Its theories are those of 1880 and long superseded, but it records the state of American archaeology in its pioneering years. Download the free EPUB.