Man across the sea : problems of pre-Columbian contacts, edited by Carroll L. Riley [and others]

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Man across the sea : problems of pre-Columbian contacts, edited by Carroll L. Riley [and others]

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problems of pre-Columbian contacts

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edited by Carroll L. Riley [and others]

Instantiates

• Man across the sea : problems of pre-Columbian contacts

Publication

• Austin, University of Texas Press, 1971

Note

Contains the major portion of papers presented at a symposium held during the national meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, at Santa Fe, N.M. in May 1968

Bibliography note

Bibliography: pages [459]-530

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• txt

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Contents

• Pre-Columbian contacts -- the dryland approach : the impact and influence of Teotihuacán culture on the pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica
• Stephan F. Borhegyi
• The sailing raft as a great tradition
• Edwin Doran, Jr.
• Cultural patterning as revealed by a study of pre-Columbian ax and adz hafting in the Old and New Worlds
• Daniel Randall Beirne
• Pre-Columbian chickens in America
• Geoge F. Carter
• The significance of an apparent relationship between the ancient Near East and Mesoamerica
• John L. Sorenson
• Diffusion versus independent development : the bases of controversy
• Vinland and the way thither
• Herbert C. Taylor, Jr.
• Quetzalcoatl : European or Indigene?
• B.C. Hedrick
• A transatlantic stimulus hypothesis for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, circa 3500 to 2000 B.C.
• Robert A. Kennedy
• Small boats upon the North Atlantic
• Alice B. Kehoe
• A reevalutation of the coconut as an indicator of human dispersal
• Jonathan D. Sauer
• Stephen C. Jett
• Endemism and pre-Columbian migration of the bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceria (Mol.) Standl.
• Thomas W. Whitaker
• Construction of the hypothesis for distribution of the sweet potato
• Douglas E. Yen
• The sweet potato : an exercise in methodology
• Donald D. Brand
• Travels of corn and squash
• Huch C. Cutler and Leonard W. Blake
• Pre-Columbian maize in Asia
• M.D.W. Jeffreys
• Diffusion and archaeological evidence
• Some problems of interpreting transoceanic dispersal of the New World cottons
• S.G. Stephens
• Phaseolus : diffusion and centers of origin
• Lawrence Kaplan
• Gordon F. Ekholm
• Diffusion : evidence and process
• David H. Kelley
• Style and culture contact
• Jon Muller

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154031

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24 cm

Extent

xvii, 552 pages

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9780292701175

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70149022

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unmediated

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• n

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illustrations, maps

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.b14593889

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(WaOLN)522542