The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific

by Geoffrey Irwin

The exploration and colonization of the Pacific is a remarkable episode in human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no knowledge of Pacific geography, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an normous range of literature on this controversial subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid, purposeful and undertaken systematically, and that navigation methods progressively improved.

Genres: History, Anthropology

260 pages, Paperback

First published June 24, 1994

Reviews

[Adam]

Not bad; may return to this if I decide to commit to researching this setting.