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17/100Scholars
Author:
Nicholas Thomas
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
June 15, 2021
In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onwards.
What The Reviewers Say
The old theories of world prehistory were all about migrations of supposedly homogenous racial groups. Modern approaches pay more attention to local adaptations and interactions and to the intermixture of migrants and earlier settlers.
A brisk and intriguing account of how the islands of Oceania came to be inhabited by humans.
A scholarly survey of the current state of knowledge on the ancient peopling of Oceania.
