Sea people the puzzle of Polynesia
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Thompson, Christina, |d 1959- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Sea people : |b the puzzle of Polynesia / |c Christina Thompson. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Puzzle of Polynesia |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, |c [2019] | |
| 300 | |a xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 500 | |a "The quest to understand who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know..."--Jacket. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-348) and index. | ||
| 505 | 2 | |a Prologue: Kealakekua Bay -- The eyewitnesses (1521-1722). A very great sea : the discovery of Oceania ; First contact : Mendana in the Marquesas ; Barely an island at all : atolls of the Tuamotus ; Outer limits : New Zealand and Easter Island -- Connecting the dots (1764-1778). Tahiti : the heart of Polynesia ; A man of knowledge : Cook meets Tupaia ; Tupaia's chart : two ways of seeing ; An aha moment : a Tahitian in New Zealand -- Why not just ask them? (1778-1920). Drowned continents and other theories : the nineteenth-century Pacific ; A world without writing : Polynesian oral traditions ; The Aryan Maori : an unlikely idea ; A viking in Hawai'i : Abraham Fornander ; Voyaging stories : history and myth -- The rise of science (1920-1959). Somatology : the mesure of man ; A Maori anthropologist : Te Rangi Hiroa ; The Moa hunters : stone and bones ; Radiocarbon dating : the question of when ; The Lapita people : a key piece of the puzzle -- Setting sail (1947-1980). Kon-Tiki : Thor Heyerdahl's raft ; Drifting not sailing : Andrew Sharp ; The non-armchair approach : David Lewis experiments ; Hokole'a : sailing to Tahiti ; Reinventing navigation : Nainoa Thompson -- What we know now (1990-2018). The latest science : DNA and dates ; Coda : two ways of knowing. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Navigation |z Polynesia |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Polynesia |x Discovery and exploration. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Oceania |x Discovery and exploration. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Polynesians |x Migrations. | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Schmalz, Robert tribute. | |
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