Search Results - "Pre-Columbian"
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Sailing to paradise : the discovery of the Americas by 7000 B.C.
Published: Simon & Schuster, 1994Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”Description: 463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Ancient ocean crossings : reconsidering the case for contacts with the pre-Columbian Americas
Published: The University of Alabama Press, 2017Contents: “…The alleged American absence of Old World communicable diseases -- Why most domesticated animals and plants stayed home -- Low tech: The absences of many Old World inventions in the New World -- More on the whys of technological absences -- The mystery of the missing artifacts -- The supposed silence of the historical record -- The "silent" historical record speaks: Documents possibly describing Pre-Columbian crossings -- Part II: Means: the types and availabilities of watercraft and navigation -- Some nautical myths and issues -- The myth of the inadequacy of Pre-Columbian watercraft -- It's earlier than you think: The antiquity of seagoing watercraft -- Have sail, will travel: The origins, types, and capabilities of sails and rigs -- Products of the Paleolithic: Rafts -- Out of the Ice Age: Skin boats of the North -- Mesolithic and neolithic legacies: Dugouts and lashed-plank watercraft -- Hulled wooden ships East and West: The junk and the Nao -- Modern experimental voyages: The empirical approach -- Asea without a compass: Celestial way-finding -- A matter of course: Seamarks and haven-finding -- Part III: Motives for ocean crossings -- Repellants -- Attractants -- Part IV: Opportunity for exchange: concrete demonstrations of contacts -- Shared physical materials, domesticated animals, and diseases -- Shared cultigens: From New into Old (World) -- Cultivated plants: Old world cropping up in the new -- Tobacco, coca, and cannabis: The mummies speak, but the scientists stand mute -- Old world faces in New world places -- Incongruous genes in America -- Part V: Conclusions -- Mission possible: Crossings occurred.…”Description: xviii, 508 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Man across the sea : problems of pre-Columbian contacts
Published: University of Texas Press, 1971Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian Congresses.…”Description: xvii, 552 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 24 cm.
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Riddles in history
Published: Arthur Barker, 1975Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian Miscellanea.…”Description: 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Before Columbus; links between the Old World and ancient America
Published: Crown, 1971Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”Description: xi, 224 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 24 cm.
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Unexpected faces in ancient America (1500 B.C.-A.D. 1500) : the historical testimony of pre-Columbian artists
Published: Crown Publishers, 1975Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”Description: xv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Voyagers to the New World / Nigel Davies 1st U.S. ed.
Published: Morrow, 1979Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”Description: ix, 287 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Spirits of the sacred mountains : creation stories of the American Indian
Published: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1978Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”Description: xvi, 122 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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The indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Published: University of Nebraska Press, 2021Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”Description: xxvii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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