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Polynesians in America
Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
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Polynesians in America
Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
About this book
The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings.
Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America.
Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America.
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Yes, you can access Polynesians in America by Terry L. Jones,Alice A. Storey,Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith,José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Re-introducing the Case for Polynesian Contact
- 2: Diffusionism in Archaeological Theory
- 3: Myths and Oral Traditions
- 4: A Long-Standing Debate
- 5: The Artifact Record from North America
- 6: The Mapuche Connection
- 7: Identifying Contact with the America
- 8: A Reappraisal of the Evidence for Pre-Columbian Introduction of Chickens to the Americas
- 9: Did Ancient Polynesians Reach the New World?
- 10: Words from Furthest Polynesia
- 11: Human Biological Evidence for Polynesian Contacts with the Americas
- 12: Rethinking the Chronology of Colonization of Southeast Polynesia
- 13: Sailing from Polynesia to the Americas
- 14: Summary and Conclusions
- References
- About the Contributors