The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands?University of Hawaii Press, 2003 M05 31 - 235 páginas Did they come from space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are some of today's most fanciful claims about the first settlers of the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: Where did the Polynesians come from? |
Contenido
CONTEXTS OF INQUIRY | 13 |
The idea of prehistory and the significance of the Pacific | 18 |
Constructing the Pacific | 24 |
SOME MAINSTREAM IDEAS 1760s1860s | 27 |
Enlightenment science Pacific explorers and the human species | 28 |
The Cook Voyages | 32 |
Evangelical missionaries 1800s1860s | 36 |
SOME MAINSTREAM IDEAS 1860s1940s | 42 |
Synthesis? | 115 |
TransPacific connections? | 119 |
ALTERNATIVE IDEAS | 121 |
American origins | 122 |
Spanish and other connections | 130 |
Sunken continents | 132 |
NEW LEARNING or old learning? | 139 |
New diffusionism | 141 |
Race diffusion adaptation 1900s1940s | 50 |
CURRENT IDEAS when and where? | 60 |
Global context | 63 |
Towards Near Oceania | 64 |
Towards Remote Oceania | 67 |
Artefactactivity trails | 71 |
Biological trails | 81 |
Linguistic trails | 83 |
Answers? | 88 |
CURRENT IDEAS how? | 92 |
Navigation | 99 |
Maritime technology | 106 |
Prototypic voyaging | 111 |
New Age prehistory | 146 |
New geology | 154 |
Does it matter? | 155 |
MAORI ORIGINS creating New Zealand prehistory | 159 |
The heroic model | 160 |
The adaptive model | 171 |
Some current issues | 176 |
CONCLUSION | 183 |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY | 209 |
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