Polynesians in America
Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
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 s…
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Weitere Autoren: Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth A (Hrsg.) / Storey, Alice A (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7591-2004-4
- EAN: 9780759120044
- Produktnummer: 10054227
- Verlag: Altamira Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 380 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.4 cm 736 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 736
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Terry L. Jones is professor of anthropology and chair of the Social Sciences Department at California Polytechnic State University. Alice A. Storey is lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Paleoanthropology at the University of New England in Australia. Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith is professor of biological anthropology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Jose Miguel Ramirez-Aliaga is archaeology director of the Centro de Estudios Rapa Nui at the Universidad de Valparaiso in Chile.
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