文档介绍：Society for American Archaeology
Diffusionism Reconsidered: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Polynesian
Contact with Southern California
Author(s): Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar
Source: American Antiquity, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Jul., 2005), pp. 457-484
Published by: Society for American Archaeology
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DIFFUSIONISM RECONSIDERED: LINGUISTIC AND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR PREHISTORIC POLYNESIAN
CONTACT WITH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TerryL. Jones and KathrynA. Klar
While the prevailing theoretical orthodoxy of North American archaeology overwhelminglydiscourages consideration of
ultural diffusion,linguistic and archaeological evidence appear to indicate at least one instance of direct cul-
tural contact between Polynesia an