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Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages book cover

1st Edition

Traveling Prehistoric Seas Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages

By Alice Beck Kehoe Copyright 2016
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge
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Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate as Australia, Labrador, Crete, California, and Chile open the possibility that ancient oceans were highways, not barriers, and that ancient people possessed the means and motives to traverse them. In this brief,... Read more
Chapter 1 Critical Thinking Method; Chapter 2 The Myth of Columbus; Chapter 3 The Question of Boats; Chapter 4 Peripatetic People; Chapter 5 Polynesian Voyaging: Landfall in the Americas; Chapter 6 The Strongest Evidence: Plants and Animals; Chapter 7 Technologies; Chapter 8 Art, Architecture, and Mythology; Chapter 9 The Atlantic World; Chapter 10 Critically Examining pre-Columbian Seas; Chapter 11 Dubitanda;

Biography

Kehoe, Alice Beck

"Professor emerita of anthropology, Kehoe, eschews frauds, mysteries, myths and the fantastic as a good scientist and looks at the data regarding pre-Columbia transoceanic contacts of peoples worldwide using basic scientific logic and principles of evaluation in order to assess the possibilities, plausibilities and probabilities of a selection of better-attested-to contacts." — PhotoView

"In this thought-provoking book, Kehoe stresses that her goal is to teach critical thinking on scientific issues. For those interested in transoceanic, pre-Columbian contact from the 'Old World' to the Americas, this volume is a must. It includes a historical perspective and provides an evaluation of many cases that various scholars have proposed over the decades. Summing Up: Essential. All public and academic levels/libraries."— J. B. Richardson III, University of Pittsburgh

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