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050	0	0	_aE103 _b.J48 2017
082	0	4	_a970.01/1 _223
100	1		_aJett, Stephen C., _d1938-
245	1	0	_aAncient ocean crossings : _breconsidering the case for contacts with the pre-Columbian Americas / _cStephen C. Jett.
264		1	_aTuscaloosa : _bThe University of Alabama Press, _c[2017]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_axviii, 508 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 399-459) and index.
505	0		_aIntellectual obstacles to the notion of early transoceanic contacts -- Means: the types and availabilities of watercraft and navigation -- Motives for ocean crossings -- Opportunity for exchange: concrete demonstrations of contacts -- Conclusions.
520			_aIn 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.
651		0	_aAmerica _xDiscovery and exploration _xPre-Columbian.
650		7	_aDiscovery and exploration, Pre-Columbian. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01910432
651		7	_aAmerica. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01239786
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