Theme: civilization was founded by Black African Ancient Egyptians in the Nile Valley.

• Diop, Chiekh  Anta, 1974. “The African Origin of Civilization.” Lawrence Hill, West Port, Connecticut
• James, George G.M., 1976. “Stolen Legacy.”  Julian Richardson Associates, San Francisco, California (First published in 1954)
• Van Sertima, Ivan, 1985. “Nile Valley Civilizations.” Journal of African Civilizations Ltd. Inc., Brunswick, New Jersey

Theme: the renaissance of Western European civilization was founded on contributions from the Black African Moor during the period 711-1492.

• Van Sertima, Ivan, (Editor) 2007. “The Golden Age of the Moor.”  Journal of African Civilizations Ltd. Inc., Brunswick, New Jersey

Theme: the first Americans were African, non-mongoloid, and not like current indigenous peoples.

• Neves, W.A. and Mark Hubbe, 2005. “Cranial morphology of early Americans from Lagoa Santa, Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World.” PNAS December 20, 2005. 102 (51) 18309-18314
• Roosevelt, Anna, A. C., M. Lima da Costa, C. Lopes Machado, M. Michab, N. Mercier, H. Vallada, J. Feathers, et al., 1996. “Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas.” Science 272: 373–384. doi: 10.1126/science.272.5260.373
• Van Sertima, Ivan, 1976. “They Came Before Columbus.” Random House, Inc.   New York
• Imhotep, David, 2012. “The First Americans Were Africans.” AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana

Theme: the “pristine myth about the Amazon basin” is being abandoned based on abundant evidence in the form of “geoglyphs and terra preta”

• Basso, S. and Plew, Mark G. 2017. “A Compendium of Radiocarbon Dates for Guyana.” Archaeology and Anthropology Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology, 21: 20-27
• Heckenberger, M. J., J. B. Petersen, and E. G. Neves. 1999. “Village Size and Permanence in Amazonia: Two Archaeological Examples From Brazil.” Latin American Antiquity 10 (4): 353–376. doi: 10.2307/971962
• Smith, N. J. H. 1980. “Anthrosols and Human Carrying Capacity in Amazonia.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 70: 553–566. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1980.tb01332.x
• Sohi, S.P, E. Lopez-Capel, and R. Bol. 2010. “Elsevier 3.1 Advances in Agronomy.
• Stenborg, P., Denise P. Schaan, and Camila G. Figueiredo. 2018. Contours of the Past: LiDAR Data Expands the Limits of Late Pre-Columbian Human Settlement in the Santarém Region, Lower Amazon, Journal of Field Archaeology Volume 43, 2018 – Issue 1, 44-57
• Watling, J, José Iriarte, Francis E. Mayle, Denise Schaan, Luiz C. R. Pessenda, Neil J. Loader, F. Alayne Street-Perrott, Ruth E. Dickau, Antonia Damasceno, and Alceu Ranzi. 2017. “Impact of pre-Columbian “geoglyph” builders on Amazonian forests.” PNAS February 21, 2017. 114 (8) 1868-1873; published ahead of print February 6, 2017. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114