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Ancient Ocean Crossings - Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas (Hardcover)
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Ancient Ocean Crossings - Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas (Hardcover)
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Ancient Ocean Crossings paints a compelling picture of impressive
pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary
to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another,
evolving independently, each in its own hemisphere. Instead, they
constituted a "global ecumene," involving a complex pattern of
intermittent but numerous and profoundly consequential contacts. In
Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with
the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to
reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant contact
between the emerging civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and
peoples who occupied the terra incognita beyond the great oceans.
More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age
hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge
from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the
Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth's two
hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result
of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans. These oceans,
along with deserts and mountains, formed impermeable barriers to
interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the
cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed
independently. Drawing on abundant evidence to support his theory
for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many
ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives
to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great
impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas
from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology,
oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of
navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive
multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies
and their diffuse but interconnected development.
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