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Man Across the Sea : Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1971Copyright date: ©1971Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (571 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781477304778
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Man Across the SeaDDC classification:
  • 973.1/1
LOC classification:
  • E103 .M36 1972
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I -- 1. Diffusion versus Independent Development: The Bases of Controversy (Stephen C. Jett) -- 2. Diffusion and Archaeological Evidence (Gordon F. Ekholm) -- 3. Diffusion: Evidence and Process (David H. Kelley) -- 4. Style and Culture Contact (Jon Muller) -- 5. Pre-Columbian Contacts-The Dryland Approach: The Impact and Influence of Teotihuacán Culture on the Pre-Columbian Civilizations of Mesoamerica (Stephan F. Borhegyi) -- 6. Commentary: Section I (Erik K. Reed) -- Section II -- 7. The Sailing Raft as a Great Tradition (Edwin Doran, Jr.) -- 8. Cultural Patterning as Revealed by a Study of Pre-Columbian Ax and Adz Hafting in the Old and New Worlds (Daniel Randall Beirne) -- 9. Pre-Columbian Chickens in America (George F. Carter) -- 10. The Significance of an Apparent Relationship between the Ancient Near East and Mesoamerica (John L. Sorenson) -- 11. Vinland and the Way Thither (Herbert C. Taylor, Jr.) -- 12. Quetzalcoatl: European or Indigene? (B. C. Hedrick) -- 13. A Transatlantic Stimulus Hypothesis for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, circa 3500 to 2000 B.C. (Robert A. Kennedy) -- 14. Small Boats upon the North Atlantic (Alice B. Kehoe) -- Untitled -- Section III -- 16. A Reevaluation of the Coconut as an Indicator of Human Dispersal (Jonathan D. Sauer) -- 17. Endemism and Pre-Columbian Migration of the Bottle Gourd, Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Standl. (Thomas W. Whitaker) -- 18. Construction of the Hypothesis for Distribution of the Sweet Potato (Douglas E. Yen) -- 19. The Sweet Potato: An Exercise in Methodology (Donald D. Brand) -- 20. Travels of Corn and Squash (Hugh C. Cutler and Leonard W. Blake) -- 21. Pre-Columbian Maize in Asia (M. D. W. Jeffreys) -- 22. Some Problems of Interpreting Transoceanic Dispersal of the New World Cottons (S. G. Stephens).
23. Phaseolus: Diffusion and Centers of Origin (Lawrence Kaplan) -- Untitled -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Index.
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Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I -- 1. Diffusion versus Independent Development: The Bases of Controversy (Stephen C. Jett) -- 2. Diffusion and Archaeological Evidence (Gordon F. Ekholm) -- 3. Diffusion: Evidence and Process (David H. Kelley) -- 4. Style and Culture Contact (Jon Muller) -- 5. Pre-Columbian Contacts-The Dryland Approach: The Impact and Influence of Teotihuacán Culture on the Pre-Columbian Civilizations of Mesoamerica (Stephan F. Borhegyi) -- 6. Commentary: Section I (Erik K. Reed) -- Section II -- 7. The Sailing Raft as a Great Tradition (Edwin Doran, Jr.) -- 8. Cultural Patterning as Revealed by a Study of Pre-Columbian Ax and Adz Hafting in the Old and New Worlds (Daniel Randall Beirne) -- 9. Pre-Columbian Chickens in America (George F. Carter) -- 10. The Significance of an Apparent Relationship between the Ancient Near East and Mesoamerica (John L. Sorenson) -- 11. Vinland and the Way Thither (Herbert C. Taylor, Jr.) -- 12. Quetzalcoatl: European or Indigene? (B. C. Hedrick) -- 13. A Transatlantic Stimulus Hypothesis for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, circa 3500 to 2000 B.C. (Robert A. Kennedy) -- 14. Small Boats upon the North Atlantic (Alice B. Kehoe) -- Untitled -- Section III -- 16. A Reevaluation of the Coconut as an Indicator of Human Dispersal (Jonathan D. Sauer) -- 17. Endemism and Pre-Columbian Migration of the Bottle Gourd, Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Standl. (Thomas W. Whitaker) -- 18. Construction of the Hypothesis for Distribution of the Sweet Potato (Douglas E. Yen) -- 19. The Sweet Potato: An Exercise in Methodology (Donald D. Brand) -- 20. Travels of Corn and Squash (Hugh C. Cutler and Leonard W. Blake) -- 21. Pre-Columbian Maize in Asia (M. D. W. Jeffreys) -- 22. Some Problems of Interpreting Transoceanic Dispersal of the New World Cottons (S. G. Stephens).

23. Phaseolus: Diffusion and Centers of Origin (Lawrence Kaplan) -- Untitled -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Index.

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