Polynesian Seafaring and American Horizons

The hypothesis presented by Jones and Klar (2005) that elements of prehistoric Chumash technology and language arrived from East Polynesia is considered. Trans-oceanic diffusion in general should not be rejected out of hand, but in this case it is improbable that it involved East Polynesia. There are substantial differences in the sewn-plank canoes at issue and the compound hooks are of a general form that is not confined to Polynesia. The chronology of East Polynesian colonization is probably too late for diffusion to southern California before A.D. 700. East Polynesian seafaring may have been inadequate to reach the Californian coast. If the explanation is diffusionary, then a source in East Asia is more plausible

Ancient history · Archaeology · Chronology · East Asia · East coast · Geography · Physical geography · Plank · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

• Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile

  Open Access•Alice A Storey, José Miguel Ramírez et al.•Proceedings of the National…•2007

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• Radiocarbon Dates and the Earliest Colonization of East Polynesia

  Open Access•Philippe Della Casa•Radiocarbon•2009

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• Experimental archaeology and the earliest seagoing

  John F Cherry, Thomas P Leppard•World Archaeology•2015

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• On Linguistics and Cascading Inventions

  Open Access•T L Jones, Kathryn A Klar•American Antiquity•2009

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• Evidence of external contact between the Pacific Basin and the east coast of Australia during the Holocene

  Open Access•Raymond C Kerkhove, Michael J Rowland•Queensland Archaeological Research•2022

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• Traveling Prehistoric Seas

  T L Jones•California Archaeology•2018

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• The Commensal Model for Human Settlement of the Pacific 10 Years on—What Can We Say and Where to Now

  Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith•The Journal of Island and Coastal…•2009

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• A Revised Late Holocene Culture History for Moloka'i Island, Hawai'i

  Open Access•M D Mccoy•Radiocarbon•2007

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• Peopling of the Pacific

  Kirch Patrick, V Kirch Patrick•Annual Review of Anthropology•2010

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• Lapita Migrants in the Pacific's Oldest Cemetery

  Open Access•R A Bentley, H R Buckley et al.•American Antiquity•2007

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• We, the Navigators

  David Lewis, Derek Oulton•We, the Navigators•1972

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• The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific

  Open Access•Geoffrey Irwin, Irwin Geoffrey•Prehistoric Exploration and…•1992

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• Prehistoric maritime migration in the Pacific islands

  Open Access•A Anderson, John Chappell et al.•The Holocene•2006

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• Late Quaternary Chronology and Stratigraphy of Twelve Sites On Kaua‘i

  Open Access•David A Burney•Radiocarbon•2002

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• Negotiating the coasts

  Jeanne E Arnold, Julienne Bernard•World Archaeology•2005

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• Faunal collapse, landscape change and settlement history in Remote Oceania

  A Anderson•World Archaeology•2002

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• The House of the Sea

  Open Access•Brian M Fagan, Brian Fagan•American Antiquity•2004

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• Diffusionism Reconsidered

  Open Access•T L Jones, Kathryn A Klar•American Antiquity•2005

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