Sea People by Thompson, Christina -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents List of Plates Prologue: Kealakekua Bay Part I: The Eyewitnesses (1521–1722)

A Very Great Sea: The Discovery of Oceania First Contact: Mendaña in the Marquesas Barely an Island at All: Atolls of the Tuamotus Outer Limits: New Zealand and Easter Island

Part II: Connecting the Dots (1764–1778)

Tahiti: The Heart of Polynesia A Man of Knowledge: Cook Meets Tupaia Tupaia’s Chart: Two Ways of Seeing An Aha Moment: A Tahitian in New Zealand

Part III: Why Not Just Ask Them? (1778–1920)

Drowned Continents and Other Theories: The Nineteenth-Century Pacific A World Without Writing: Polynesian Oral Traditions The Aryan Māori: An Unlikely Idea A Viking in Hawai‘i: Abraham Fornander Voyaging Stories: History and Myth

Part IV: The Rise of Science (1920–1959)

Somatology: The Measure of Man A Māori Anthropologist: Te Rangi Hiroa The Moa Hunters: Stone and Bones Radiocarbon Dating: The Question of When The Lapita People: A Key Piece of the Puzzle

Part V: Setting Sail (1947–1980)

Kon-Tiki: Thor Heyerdahl’s Raft Drifting Not Sailing: Andrew Sharp The Non-Armchair Approach: David Lewis Experiments Hōkūle‘a: Sailing to Tahiti Reinventing Navigation: Nainoa Thompson

Part VI: What We Know Now (1990–2018)

The Latest Science: DNA and Dates Coda: Two Ways of Knowing

Acknowledgments Notes Index Photo Section About the Author Also by Christina Thompson Copyright About the Publisher