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Traveling prehistoric seas : critical thinking on ancient transoceanic voyages

Title
Traveling prehistoric seas : critical thinking on ancient transoceanic voyages / Alice Beck Kehoe.
Author
Kehoe, Alice Beck, 1934-
Publication
  • Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Description
217 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Alternative Title
Critical thinking on ancient transoceanic voyages
Subject
  • Ocean travel > History > To 1500
  • Boats, Prehistoric
  • Navigation > History > To 1500
  • Polynesians > Travel > History
  • Ocean and civilization
  • Human beings > Migrations
  • America > Discovery and exploration > Polynesian
  • America > Discovery and exploration > Pre-Columbian
  • America > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JFE 16-1957
ISBN
  • 9781629580661
  • 162958066X
  • 9781629580678
  • 1629580678
  • 9781629580692 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015030609
OCLC
936139369
Author
Kehoe, Alice Beck, 1934- author.
Title
Traveling prehistoric seas : critical thinking on ancient transoceanic voyages / Alice Beck Kehoe.
Publisher
Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-1957
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