Crossing Ancient Oceans - Stephen C. Jett

Crossing Ancient Oceans

Voyages to the Americas before Columbus

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
416 Seiten
2006
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-95006-8 (ISBN)
32,05 inkl. MwSt
  • Titel wird leider nicht erscheinen
  • Artikel merken
Was there contact across the Pacific ocean in pre-Columbian times? This book examines the evidence for such contact: the seafaring capabilities of civilizations around the Pacific, the physical evidence of contact, and the evidence of cultural influences in both directions. It argues that American civilizations were part of a "global ecumene".
Did the Polynesians, Chinese and others make contact with North American civilizations in prehistoric times? For many years, this question was as close to taboo as you could get in anthropology: even to ask it was to risk labeling oneself a racist. Now, however, hard physical evidence of such contact has mounted to the point where it is difficult to ignore.This groundbreaking work, by the single most prominent scholar on the subject of pre-Columbian contact, is sure to be controversial and will cause the standard textbooks of North American prehistory to be rewritten. Stephen Jett covers the maritime capabilities of Far Eastern and Oceanic peoples, the physical evidence for contact, and the cultural similarities between New and Old World civilizations that had previously been explained away. This is an important book that will force a reassessment of the entire picture of North American prehistory.

A history of the controversy and an overview of the present isolationist paradigm.- The seafaring capability to carry out trans-Pacific contacts.- Motives for early voyaging.- Physical evidence of contacts.- Large-scale cultural influences.- Theoretical implications: viewing the New World civilizations as part of a "global ecumene".

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.10.2006
Zusatzinfo 26 illus.
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Allgemeines / Lexika
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 0-387-95006-0 / 0387950060
ISBN-13 978-0-387-95006-8 / 9780387950068
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich

von David Grann

Buch | Softcover (2024)
Simon & Schuster Ltd (Verlag)
13,70
populäre Irrtümer und andere Wahrheiten

von Malte Fiebing-Petersen

Buch | Softcover (2024)
Klartext (Verlag)
16,95
Die Ausgrabungen des Deutschen Evangelischen Instituts für …

von Dieter Vieweger

Buch | Softcover (2024)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
34,95