Sea People
by Christina Thompson · Christina Thompson
Thompson traces two centuries of archaeology, linguistics, oral tradition and experimental voyaging that reconstructed how Polynesians settled the remote Pacific. Readers finish able to follow the main evidence and disputes behind competing settlement theories.
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