Includes index.

Timeline -- Land and people -- First Americans -- After the ice age -- The Arctic -- The Mound Builders -- Temple Mound Builders -- Sites : Cahokia, Emerald Mound -- The northern Iroquoians -- The Great Plains -- The far West -- Sites : Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly -- Sites : Chaco Canyon -- The northwest coast -- Mesoamerica after the ice age -- The Olmec -- Sites : San Lorenzo, La Venta -- Sites : Teotihuac'n -- The Maya civilization -- Sites : Palenque -- The Toltec empire -- Sites : Chich'n itz' -- The Aztec empire -- Sites : Tenochtitl'n -- The central Andres -- Sites : Moche, Tiwanaku, Wari -- The Inca -- Sites : Cuzco, Machu Picchu.