Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Diffusion versus independent development : the bases of controversy / Stephen C. Jett
  • Diffusion and archaeological evidence / Gordon F. Ekholm
  • Diffusion : evidence and process / David H. Kelley
  • Style and culture contact / Jon Muller
  • Pre-Columbian contacts
  • the dryland approach : the impact and influence of Teotihuacán culture on the pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica / Stephan F. Borhegyi
  • The sailing raft as a great tradition / Edwin Doran, Jr.
  • Cultural patterning as revealed by a study of pre-Columbian ax and adz hafting in the Old and New Worlds / Daniel Randall Beirne
  • Pre-Columbian chickens in America / Geoge F. Carter
  • The significance of an apparent relationship between the ancient Near East and Mesoamerica / John L. Sorenson
  • Vinland and the way thither / Herbert C. Taylor, Jr.
  • Quetzalcoatl : European or Indigene? / B.C. Hedrick
  • A transatlantic stimulus hypothesis for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, circa 3500 to 2000 B.C. / Robert A. Kennedy
  • Small boats upon the North Atlantic / Alice B. Kehoe
  • A reevalutation of the coconut as an indicator of human dispersal / Jonathan D. Sauer
  • Endemism and pre-Columbian migration of the bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceria (Mol.) Standl. / Thomas W. Whitaker
  • Construction of the hypothesis for distribution of the sweet potato / Douglas E. Yen
  • The sweet potato : an exercise in methodology / Donald D. Brand
  • Travels of corn and squash / Huch C. Cutler and Leonard W. Blake
  • Pre-Columbian maize in Asia / M.D.W. Jeffreys
  • Some problems of interpreting transoceanic dispersal of the New World cottons / S.G. Stephens
  • Phaseolus : diffusion and centers of origin / Lawrence Kaplan.