پلی‌نزی‌ها در آمریکا: تماس‌های پیشاکلمبی با دنیای جدید

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 verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings. Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America. Re-introducing the case for Polynesian contact / Terry L. Jones Diffusionism in archaeological theory : the good, the bad, and the ugly / Alice A. Storey and Terry L. Jones Myths and oral traditions / Terry L. Jones and Alice A. Storey A longstanding debate / Terry L. Jones and Alice A. Storey The artifact record from North America / Terry L. Jones The Mapuche connection / José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga Identifying contact with the Americas : a commensal based approach / Alice A. Storey, Andrew C. Clarke, and Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith A reappraisal of the evidence for pre-Columbian introduction of chickens to the Americas / Alice A. Storey, Daniel Quiróz, and Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith Did ancient Polynesians reach the New World? : evaluating evidence from the Ecuadorian Gulf of Guayaquil / Richard Scaglion and María-Auxiliadora Cordero Words from furthest Polynesia : North and South American linguistic evidence for prehistoric contact / Kathryn A. Klar Human biological evidence for Polynesian contacts with the Americas : finding Maui on Mocha or Kupe in Carmel? / Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith Rethinking the chronology of colonization of southeast Polynesia / Marshall I. Weisler and Roger C. Green Sailing from Polynesia to the Americas / Geoffrey Irwin 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. "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 verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings. Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America."--Publisher description This volume presents a synthesis of over a century of academic research on the question of prehistoric trans-oceanic contacts between Polynesia and the New World. Leading experts in archaeology, botany, linguistics, and physical anthropology discuss the latest ground-breaking evidence that supports pre-Columbian Polynesian landfalls in both North and South America.