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  • Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
  • Written by author Jones, Terry
  • Published by AltaMira Press, 1/16/2011
  • The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea ver
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List of Illustrations xi

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xix

Chapter 1 Re-introducing the Case for Polynesian Contact Terry L. Jones 1

Chapter 2 Diffusionism in Archaeological Theory: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Alice A. Storey Terry L. Jones 7

Chapter 3 Myths and Oral Traditions Terry L. Jones Alice A. Storey 25

Chapter 4 A Long-Standing Debate Terry L. Jones Alice A. Storey 37

Chapter 5 The Artifact Record from North America Terry L. Jones 71

Chapter 6 The Mapuche Connection José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga 95

Chapter 7 Identifying Contact with the Americas: A Commensal-Based Approach Alice A. Storey Andrew C. Clarke Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith 111

Chapter 8 A Reappraisal of the Evidence for Pre-Columbian Introduction of Chickens to the Americas Alice A. Storey Daniel Quiróz Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith 139

Chapter 9 Did Ancient Polynesians Reach the New World? Evaluating Evidence from the Ecuadorian Gulf of Guayaquil Richard Scaglion María-Auxiliadora Cordero 171

Chapter 10 Words from Furthest Polynesia: North and South American Linguistic Evidence for Prehistoric Contact Kathryn A. Klar 194

Chapter 11 Human Biological Evidence for Polynesian Contacts with the Americas: Finding Maui on Mocha? Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith 208

Chapter 12 Rethinking the Chronology of Colonization of Southeast Polynesia Marshall I. Weisler Roger C. Green 223

Chapter 13 Sailing from Polynesia to the Americas Geoffrey Ir Win 247

Chapter 14 Summary and Conclusions Terry L. Jones Andrew C. Clarke María-Auxiliadora Cordero Roger C. Green Geoffrey Ir Win Kathryn A. Klar Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith Daniel Quiróz José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga Richard Scaglion Alice A. Storey Marshall I. Weisler 263

References 277

Index 351

About the Contributors 355


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