Ancient Ocean Crossings
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Author |
: Stephen C. Jett |
Publisher |
: University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages |
: 529 |
Release |
: 2017-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780817319397 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0817319395 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Ocean Crossings by : Stephen C. Jett
Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More 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 that covered that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting terrestrial distances, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant and concrete 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.
Author |
: Martin W. Sandler |
Publisher |
: Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 484 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402747243 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1402747241 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Atlantic Ocean by : Martin W. Sandler
Presents an illustrated examination of the Atlantic Ocean and the transformative role it has played as a corridor for the exchange of people, technologies, ideas, goods, and cultures for over two thousand years as exploration and discovery helped in the growth of global commerce.
Author |
: Alice Beck Kehoe |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2016-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315416403 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315416409 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Traveling Prehistoric Seas by : Alice Beck Kehoe
Alice Kehoe uses critical analysis of large bodies of interdisciplinary evidence to help scholars and students reevaluate the highly controversial theory that people sailed large distances across oceans in ancient times.
Author |
: Brian Fagan |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2012-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408833506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408833506 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Blue Horizon by : Brian Fagan
We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet's most mysterious terrain. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans changed the course of human history. What drove humans to risk their lives on open water? How did early sailors unlock the secrets of winds, tides, and the stars they steered by? What were the earliest ocean crossings like? With compelling detail, Fagan reveals how seafaring evolved so that the forbidding realms of the sea gods were transformed from barriers into a nexus of commerce and cultural exchange. From bamboo rafts in the Java Sea to triremes in the Aegean, from Norse longboats in the North Atlantic to sealskin kayaks in Alaska, Fagan crafts a captivating narrative of humanity's urge to challenge the unknown and seek out distant shores.
Author |
: Brian Fagan |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2013-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608194032 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608194035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Blue Horizon by : Brian Fagan
The best-selling author of The Great Warming provides a vibrant history of how early seafarers first mastered long-distance navigation with civilization-changing effectiveness, providing vivid descriptions of early ocean crossings by myriad cultures and how they came to understand the winds, tides and stars.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2015-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004289536 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004289534 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Across the Ocean: Nine Essays on Indo-Mediterranean Trade by :
Across the Ocean contains nine essays, each dedicated to a key question in the history of the trade relations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: the role of the state in the Red Sea trade, Roman policy in the Red Sea, the function of Trajan’s Canal, the pepper trade, the pearl trade, the Nabataean middlemen, the use of gold in ancient India, the constant renewal of the Indian Ocean ports of trade, and the rise and demise of the VOC.
Author |
: Sunil S. Amrith |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2013-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674728479 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674728475 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crossing the Bay of Bengal by : Sunil S. Amrith
The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal—India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia—are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay and those who have inhabited it. For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and then as a battleground for European empires, all while being shaped by the monsoons and by human migration. Imperial powers in the nineteenth century, abetted by the force of capital and the power of steam, reconfigured the Bay in their quest for coffee, rice, and rubber. Millions of Indian migrants crossed the sea, bound by debt or spurred by drought, and filled with ambition. Booming port cities like Singapore and Penang became the most culturally diverse societies of their time. By the 1930s, however, economic, political, and environmental pressures began to erode the Bay’s centuries-old patterns of interconnection. Today, rising waters leave the Bay of Bengal’s shores especially vulnerable to climate change, at the same time that its location makes it central to struggles over Asia’s future. Amrith’s evocative and compelling narrative of the region’s pasts offers insights critical to understanding and confronting the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.
Author |
: Marie-Claire Beaulieu |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812247657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812247655 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sea in the Greek Imagination by : Marie-Claire Beaulieu
In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods, or between reality and imagination.
Author |
: Ryan Tucker Jones |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 948 |
Release |
: 2022-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108334068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108334067 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean: Volume 1, The Pacific Ocean to 1800 by : Ryan Tucker Jones
Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a wide-ranging survey of Pacific history to 1800. It focuses on varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history, as well as tracing the early exploration and colonization of the Pacific, the evolution of Indigenous maritime cultures after colonization, and the disruptive arrival of Europeans. Bringing together a diversity of subjects and viewpoints, this volume introduces a broad variety of topics, engaging fully with emerging environmental and political conflicts over Pacific Ocean spaces. These essays emphasize the impact of the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific to the present day.
Author |
: Brian Regal |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2022-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030995386 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030995380 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Battle over America's Origin Story by : Brian Regal
This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials—some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of who discovered America helped create the field of historical scholarship in this country. This book does not attempt to prove who discovered America, rather it tells the story of those who think they did.