{"product_id":"ancient-ocean-crossings-stephen-c-jett-9780817319397","title":"Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas","description":"\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In\u003ci\u003e Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering 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 interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged \u003ci\u003eterra incognita\u003c\/i\u003e beyond the great oceans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen C. Jett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817319395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817319397\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2017","brand":"Stephen C. Jett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926491595007,"sku":"9780817319397","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e9f40ecd-1029-4998-9543-eebde61cba8e.jpg?v=1681083370","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ancient-ocean-crossings-stephen-c-jett-9780817319397","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}