Polynesians in America : pre-Columbian contacts with the New World

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Polynesians in America : pre-Columbian contacts with the New World

edited by Terry L. Jones ... [et al.]

AltaMira Press, c2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-350) and index

Contents of Works

  • Re-introducing the case for Polynesian contact / Terry L. Jones
  • Diffusionism in archaeological theory : the good, the bad, and the ugly / Alice A. Storey and Terry L. Jones
  • Myths and oral traditions / Terry L. Jones and Alice A. Storey
  • A long-standing debate / Terry L. Jones and Alice A. Storey
  • The artifact record from North America / Terry L. Jones
  • The Mapuche connection / José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga
  • Identifying contact with the Americas : a commensal-based approach / Alice A. Storey, Andrew C. Clarke, and Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith
  • A reappraisal of the evidence for pre-Columbian introduction of chickens to the Americas / Alice A. Storey, Daniel Quiróz, and Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith
  • Did ancient Polynesians reach the New World? : evaluating evidence from the Ecuadorian Gulf of Guayaquil / Richard Scaglion and María-Auxiliadora Cordero
  • Words from furthest Polynesia : North and South American linguistic evidence for prehistoric contact / Kathryn A. Klar
  • Human biological evidence for Polynesian contacts with the Americas : finding Maui on Mocha? / Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith
  • Rethinking the chronology of colonization of southeast Polynesia / Marshall I. Weisler and Roger C. Green
  • Sailing from Polynesia to the Americas / Geoffrey Irwin

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