Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7693
Title: Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
Contributor(s): Jones, Terry L (editor); Storey, Alice  (editor); Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth (editor); Ramirez-Aliaga, Jose Miguel (editor)
Publication Date: 2010
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7693
Abstract: In the history of science there have been many occasions when scholars working independently in different fields and from different nationalities have simultaneously turned their attention to the same intellectual questions - often unbeknownst to one another. Such intellectual convergence seems to occur when scholarly momentum builds up to the point where once-new, fresh theories seem old and ineffective, and old disfavored ideas become worthy of reconsideration. On some level, this book can be seen as the result of such processes. Early in the new millennium a number of scholars in different geographic areas began to reconsider what had become a forgotten topic in mainstream western academia: pre-Columbian transoceanic diffusion - in particular, the possibility that Polynesian seafarers reached American shores before 1492. Seemingly unbeknownst to each other, groups of scholars in five different parts of the world started re-examining various lines of evidence for Polynesian contacts, re-opening a debate that had raged for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In some cases, these scholars were not actually aware of the full history and scope of this debate, inasmuch as it had disappeared from mainstream academic agendas nearly three decades earlier. Of course, science often gains momentum from key discoveries, and two from the 1990s ultimately helped fuel the research presented in this volume.
Publication Type: Book
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Place of Publication: California, United States of America
ISBN: 0759120048
0759120064
9780759120068
9780759120044
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: 219999 History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified
210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
210106 Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl New Zealand)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950506 Understanding the Past of the Americas
950505 Understanding New Zealands Past
950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified
HERDC Category Description: A3 Book - Edited
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38119719
http://www.altamirapress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0759120048
Extent of Pages: 359
Appears in Collections:Book

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