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  MAP CREDITS

  All maps by Nick Springer and Tracy Pollack, Springer Cartographics LLC, with Charles C. Mann, except the tip-in map by Peter Dana, William Doolittle, and Charles C. Mann.

  1.1 data from Diehl, 1983; Martin and Grube, 2000; Flannery and Marcus, 2000, 2003; MacEwan, Barreto, and Neves, 2001; Heckenberger et al., 2003; Pärssinen, 2003; Denevan pers. comm.; Erickson pers. comm.; Petersen pers. comm.; Woods pers. comm.

  2.1, 2.2 after Salisbury, 1982; Vaughan, 1995; Plimoth Plantation Education Dept.

  3.1 after Hyslop, 1984; Moseley, 2001; Pärssinen, 2003

  3.2 data from Rowe, 1946; Moseley, 2001; D’Altroy, 2002; Pärssinen, 2003

  4.1 data from Berdan and Anawalt, 1997; Townsend, 2000; Pollard, 2003

  5.1 after Haynes, 1964

  6.1 after Haas, Creamer, and Ruiz, 2004

  7.1 data from Flores, 1974; Bernal, 1969; Coe, 1994, 1999; Martin and Grube, 2000; Flannery and Marcus, 2000, 2003; Pohl, Pope, and von Nagy, 2002; FAMSI, n.d.

  7.2 after Owen and Goldstein, 2001; Stanish, 2003

  8.1 d
ata from Brown, 1992; Saunders et al., 1997; Petersen pers. comm.; Woods pers. comm.; U.S. National Park Service, n.d.

  8.2 after Fowler, 1997

  8.3 data from Martin and Grube, 1996, 2000; Guenter, 2003; Fahsen, 2003

  9.1 after Denevan, 1996; MacEwan, Barreto, and Neves, 2001; Heckenberger et al., 2003

  Tip-in data from Gibbons et al. 2007; Gartner 2003; Doolittle 2001; Whitmore and Turner 2001; MaceEwan, Barreto, and Neves 2001; Denevan 2000, 1992a; Pyne 1995; Denevan, Dull, Hecht, Knapp, Petersen, Pyne, Roosevelt, Woods, pers. comm. Cartographic advice from Guntram Herb, Michael Hanke and Ann Marshall. This map is conceptually based on an earlier version by Denevan (1992a) (The author is extremely grateful to all these people for helping and especially to Bill Doolittle and Peter Dana for allowing him to use this map here.)

  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  (*) Image digitally altered by author, usually to remove dust, scratches and bleed-through

  1.3 Clark L. Erickson, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (*)

  1.1, 1.2 2.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.4, 7.5, 7.7, 10.3, a.1 Author’s collection (replica wetu in 44 at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA)

  2.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.4, 7.5, 7.7, 10.3, a.1 Author’s collection

  2.2 Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (hereafter LOC), Reproduction No. LC-USZ62-53338; 2.3 LOC, Reproduction No. LC-USZ62-54015

  2.4 LOC, Reproduction No: LC-USZ62-54018

  3.1, 3.6 Julia Chambi and Teo Allain Chambi, Archivo Fotográfico Martín Chambi, Cusco, Peru

  3.3 LOC, Reproduction No. LC-USZ62-97754

  3.4 Royal Library, Copenhagen, facsimile with transcription from Guamán Poma Web site, www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma (*)

  3.5 Rutahsa Adventures, www.rutahsa.com (photo by Ric Finch)

  4.1, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 8.5, 9.2 Peter Menzel, www.menzelphoto.com

  4.2 Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City (painting by Miguel Covarrubias)

  4.3 Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Mex. 385 (Codex Telleriano-Remensis, folio 45v.) (*); 4.4 Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, N.M. (Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España, vol. 4, book 12, plate 114)