• DOI:10.2307/40035309
Corpus ID: 161301055

Diffusionism Reconsidered: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Polynesian Contact with Southern California

@article{Jones2005DiffusionismRL,
  title={Diffusionism Reconsidered: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Polynesian Contact with Southern California},
  author={T. Jones and K. Klar},
  journal={American Antiquity},
  year={2005},
  volume={70},
  pages={457 - 484}
}

• T. Jones, K. Klar
• Published 2005
• History
• American Antiquity

While the prevailing theoretical orthodoxy of North American archaeology overwhelmingly discourages consideration of transoceanic cultural diffusion, linguistic and archaeological evidence appear to indicate at least one instance of direct cultural contact between Polynesia and southern California during the prehistoric era. Three words used to refer to boats - including the distinctive sewn-plank canoe used by Chumashan and Gabrielino speakers of the southern California coast - are odd by the… Expand