Polynesians in America
Subtitle: pre-Columbian contacts with the New World
By: edited by Terry L. Jones ... [et al.].
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780759120044; 9780759120068
Subjects: Pre-Columbian; Polynesian; History; Polynesians; Antiquities; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Re-introducing the case for Polynesian contact / Terry L. Jones; title: Diffusionism in archaeological theory : the good, the bad, and the ugly / Alice A. Storey and Terry L. Jones; title: Myths and oral traditions / Terry L. Jones and Alice A. Storey; title: A longstanding debate / Terry L. Jones and Alice A. Storey; title: The artifact record from North America / Terry L. Jones; title: The Mapuche connection / José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga; title: Identifying contact with the Americas : a commensal based approach / Alice A. Storey, Andrew C. Clarke, and Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith; title: A reappraisal of the evidence for pre-Columbian introduction of chickens to the Americas / Alice A. Storey, Daniel Quiróz, and Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith; title: Did ancient Polynesians reach the New World? : evaluating evidence from the Ecuadorian Gulf of Guayaquil / Richard Scaglion and María-Auxiliadora Cordero; title: Words from furthest Polynesia : North and South American linguistic evidence for prehistoric contact / Kathryn A. Klar; title: Human biological evidence for Polynesian contacts with the Americas : finding Maui on Mocha or Kupe in Carmel? / Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith; title: Rethinking the chronology of colonization of southeast Polynesia / Marshall I. Weisler and Roger C. Green; title: Sailing from Polynesia to the Americas / Geoffrey Irwin; title: Summary and conclusions / Terry L. Jones, Andrew C. Clarke, María-Auxiliadora Cordero, Roger C. Green, Geoffrey Irwin, Kathryn A. Klar, Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith, Daniel Quiróz, José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga, Richard Scaglion, Alice A. Storey, and Marshall I. Weisler.