Prehistoric Explorn & Colonisation - Softcover

Irwin, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521476518 ISBN 13: 9780521476515

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 1994 Pages: 622 Publisher: Camidge. University Press The Exploration and colonization of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography no documents to record their route. no metal. no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology. experimental voyages in rafts. and computer simulations of voyages have produced an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful. undertaken systematically. and that navigation methods progressively improved. Using an innovative model to establish a detailed theory of navigation. Geoffrey Irwin claims that rather than sailing randomly dow...

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'... one of the most innovative and interesting works on Polynesian prehistory in many years ... this work will fundamentally change Pacific archaeology, redirecting our questions and reshaping our ideas about the past.' Man

Book Description:

The colonisation of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early explorers had no knowledge of Pacific geography, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. This book is a reassessment of the settlement of the Pacific. It suggests that exploration was rapid and purposeful and that navigation methods progressively improved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521476518
• ISBN 13: 9780521476515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260