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Author:
Kehoe, Alice Beck, 1934- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80113509
Title:
Traveling prehistoric seas : critical thinking on ancient transoceanic voyages / Alice Beck Kehoe.
Publisher:
Left Coast Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subject:
America--Polynesian.--Polynesian.
America--Pre-Columbian.--Pre-Columbian.
Ocean travel--History--To 1500.
Boats, Prehistoric.
Navigation--History--To 1500.
Polynesians--History.--History.
Ocean and civilization.
Human beings--Migrations.
America--Antiquities.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index.
Contents:
1. Critical thinking method -- 2. The myth of Columbus -- 3. The question of boats -- 4. Peripatetic people -- 5. Polynesian voyaging : landfalls in the Americas -- 6. The strongest evidence : plants and animals -- 7. Technologies -- 8. Art, architecture, and mythology -- 9. The Atlantic world -- 10. Critically examining pre-Columbian seas -- 11. Dubitanda -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.
ISBN:
1629580678
9781629580678
162958066X
9781629580661
OCLC:
(OCoLC)910334686
LCCN:
2015030609
Locations:
PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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