Quest for Origins
Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?
Edición de la obra Quest for Origins
| Autor | Kerry Howe |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited |
| Fecha de publicación | 2008 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 240 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780143008453 |
| OCLC | 190871498 |
| Número de Cutter | H856q |
Did they come from space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are some of today's most fanciful claims about the first settlers of the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answers the question: Where did the Polynesians come from? This book is a thoughtful and devastating critique of such "new" learning, and a careful and accessible survey of modern archaeological, anthropological, genetic, and linguistic findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders.