{"product_id":"ancient-ocean-crossings-reconsidering-the-case-for-contacts-with-the-pre-columbian-americas-hardback-9780817319397","title":"Ancient Ocean Crossings; Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas (Hardback) 9780817319397","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAncient Ocean Crossings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen C. Jett (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817319397\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 June 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e488 pages, 39 black \u0026amp; white figures\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.4 x 4.3 cm, 0.98 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAncient Ocean Crossings\u003c\/i\u003e is a stupendous work, one chock full of exciting ideas and fascinating facts about the cultural history of the world. The work gives new meaning to the expression \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\" - Daniel W. Gade, author of \u003ci\u003eCuriosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNature and Culture in the Andes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAncient Ocean Crossings \u003c\/i\u003epaints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another, evolving independently, each in its own hemisphere. Instead, they constituted a “global ecumene,” involving a complex pattern of intermittent but numerous and profoundly consequential contacts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In\u003ci\u003e Ancient Ocean Crossings: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eReconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant contact between the emerging civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the \u003ci\u003eterra incognita\u003c\/i\u003e beyond the great oceans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth’s two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans. These oceans, along with deserts and mountains, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on abundant evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523419304216,"sku":"9780817319397","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ancient-ocean-crossings-reconsidering-the-case-for-contacts-with-the-pre-columbian-americas-hardback-9780817319397","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}