Search Results - "Pre-Columbian"

Sailing to paradise : the discovery of the Americas by 7000 B.C. by Bailey, Jim, 1919-2000

Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”

Ancient ocean crossings : reconsidering the case for contacts with the pre-Columbian Americas by Jett, Stephen C., 1938-

Contents: “…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.…”

Man across the sea : problems of pre-Columbian contacts by Society for American Archaeology

Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian Congresses.…”

Riddles in history by Gordon, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Herzl), 1908-2001

Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian Miscellanea.…”

Before Columbus; links between the Old World and ancient America by Gordon, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Herzl), 1908-2001

Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”

Unexpected faces in ancient America (1500 B.C.-A.D. 1500) : the historical testimony of pre-Columbian artists by Wuthenau, Alexander von

Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”

Voyagers to the New World / Nigel Davies 1st U.S. ed. by Davies, Nigel, 1920-2004

Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”

Spirits of the sacred mountains : creation stories of the American Indian by Coffer, William E.

Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”

The indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Steeves, Paulette F. C.

Subjects: “…America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian.…”