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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.
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