Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New

Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
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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.
Country USA
Brand Altamira Press
Manufacturer AltaMira Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2011-01-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780759120044

Country	USA
Brand	Altamira Press
Manufacturer	AltaMira Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
ReleaseDate	2011-01-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780759120044

Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World

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