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  title info:
    title: Ancient ocean crossings
    sub title: reconsidering the case for contacts with the pre-Columbian Americas
  name:
    name part: Jett, Stephen C.
    name part: 1938-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: alu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 508 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged 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 that covered that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting terrestrial distances, 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 and concrete 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.
  note: Stephen C. Jett.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n------
    geographic code: s------
  subject:
    geographic: America
    topic: Discovery and exploration
    topic: Pre-Columbian
  classification: E103 .J48 2017
  classification: 970.01/1
  identifier: 0817319395
  identifier: 9780817319397
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170125
    record change date: 20170926120251.0
    record identifier: in00003874142