Author: Douglas Houghton CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
An Outline of Plant Geography
Author: Douglas Houghton CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Journal of Botany
Author: Landscape Architecture
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society's Collection
Author: Plant Ecology
Author: Walter Byron McDougallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Ecology
Author: Library Notes
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Woman's College. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Ancient Ocean Crossings
Author: Stephen C. JettPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817319395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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.