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Polynesians in America
Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
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2011
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-2004-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-2006-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
360
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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CONTENTS No access
ILLUSTRATIONS No access
PREFACE No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
Ch01. Re-introducing the Casefor Polynesian Contact No access Pages 1 - 6
Ch02. Diffusionism in Archaeological Theory No access Pages 7 - 24
Ch03. Myths and Oral Traditions No access Pages 25 - 36
Ch04. A Long-Standing Debate No access Pages 37 - 70
Ch05. The Artifact Record from North America No access Pages 71 - 94
Ch06. The Mapuche Connection No access Pages 95 - 110
Ch07. Identifying Contact with the Americas No access Pages 111 - 138
Ch08. A Reappraisal of the Evidence for Pre-Columbian Introduction of Chickens to the Americas No access Pages 139 - 170
Ch09. Did Ancient Polynesians Reach the New World? No access Pages 171 - 193
Ch10. Words from Furthest Polynesia No access Pages 194 - 207
Ch11. Human Biological Evidence for Polynesian Contacts with the Americas No access Pages 208 - 222
Ch12. Rethinking the Chronology of Colonization of Southeast Polynesia No access Pages 223 - 246
Ch13. Sailing from Polynesia to the Americas No access Pages 247 - 262
Ch14. Summary and Conclusions No access Pages 263 - 276
