Sea people : : the puzzle of Polynesia / First edition.

Sea people : : the puzzle of Polynesia /

First edition.

Material type: 図書

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Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Publication date: [2019],

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ; 24 cm.

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Note (General)：: Prologue : Kealakekua Bay -- Part I. The eyewitnesses (1521-1722). A very great sea : the discovery of Oceania ; First contact : Mendaña in the Marqu...

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東京都立中央図書館
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275.0-T47-S
Book Registration Number：
7111829267
東京都立中央図書館

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 0062060872 (hbk.)
9780062060877 (hbk.)
Title: Sea people : : the puzzle of Polynesia /
Edition: First edition.
Publication, Distribution, etc.: New York, NY : : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Publication Date: [2019],
Extent: xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ; 24 cm.
Contributor: Christina Thompson.
Place of Publication (Country Code): pops---
Text Language Code: eng
NDC 10th ed.: 275 : General history of Occeania--Polynesia
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Prologue : Kealakekua Bay -- Part I. The eyewitnesses (1521-1722). A very great sea : the discovery of Oceania ; First contact : Mendaña in the Marquesas ; Barely an island at all : atolls of the Tuamotus ; Outer limits : New Zealand and Easter Island -- Part II. Connecting the dots (1764-1778). Tahiti : the heart of Polynesia ; A man of knowledge : Cook meets Tupaia ; Tupaia's chart : two ways of seeing ; An aha moment : a Tahitian in New Zealand -- Part III. Why not just ask them? (1778-1920). Drowned continents and other theories : the nineteenth-century Pacific ; A world without writing : Polynesian oral traditions ; The Aryan Māori : an unlikely idea ; A Viking in Hawai'i : Abraham Fornander ; Voyaging stories : history and myth -- Part IV. The rise of science (1920-1959). Somatology : the measure of man ; A Māori anthropologist : Te Rangi Hiroa ; The Moa hunters : stone and bones ; Radiocarbon dating : the question of when ; The Lapita people : a key piece of the puzzle -- Part V. Setting sail (1947-1980). Kon-Tiki : Thor Heyerdahl's raft ; Drifting not sailing : Andrew Sharp ; The non-armchair approach : David Lewis experiments ; Hōkūleʻa : sailing to Tahiti ; Reinventing navigation : Nainoa Thompson -- Part VI. What we know now (1990-2018). The latest science : DNA and dates ; Coda : two ways of knowing.
"The quest to understand who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know ..."--Jacket.
Holding library: 東京都立中央図書館
Note (Library): 301
Call No.: 275.0-T47-S
Data Provider (Database): 東京都立中央図書館 : 公共図書館蔵書
Bibliographic ID (SomokuID): 1352038062
7111829267
OCLC No.: (OCoLC)1089397451
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/(OCoLC)1089397451