Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas. By Stephen C. Jett. 2017. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 508 pp.

  • Diana Rocío Carvajal Contreras Facultad de Estudios de Patrimonio Cultural, Carrera de Arqueología, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá.

Author Biography

Diana Rocío Carvajal Contreras, Facultad de Estudios de Patrimonio Cultural, Carrera de Arqueología, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá.
Diana Rocío Carvajal Contreras obtained her bachelor degree in Anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1999 with a dissertation about the use of mollusks at Cerro Juan Diaz, Central Pacific Panama and her PhD degree in archaeology at the University of Calgary (Canada) in 2010 with a thesis about fish remains from Cueva de los Vampiros in Panama. Currently, she is teaching archaeology at Universidad Externado de Colombia and conducting archaeology work in Colombia near Cartagena on the Caribbean coast.

References

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Storey, A., and T. Jones. 2011. Diffusionism in Archaeological Theory: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. In Polynesian in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World, edited by T. Jones, A. Storey, E. Matisoo Smith, and J. Ramirez Aliaga, pp. 7–24. Altamira Press, Lanham, MD.

Published
2018-10-10
How to Cite
Carvajal Contreras, D. R. (2018). Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas. By Stephen C. Jett. 2017. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 508 pp. Ethnobiology Letters, 9(2), 250-252. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.9.2.2018.1352
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