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Pages: 529
Authors: Stephen C. Jett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-06 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from o
Crossing Ancient Oceans
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Stephen C. Jett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Copernicus Books

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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
Expeditionary Anthropology
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Martin Thomas
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-29 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of tea
World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492
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Authors: John L. Sorenson
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People moved into America very early across the Bering Strait. By the fifth millennia B.C.E. tropical sailors brought diseases to America and took plants and an
Traveling Prehistoric Seas
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Alice Beck Kehoe
Categories: Social Science
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Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in