This bibliography is built to include recent studies of contacts between Polynesian seafarers and the Americas.
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This bibliography is part of the About.com Guide to the Population of America and the Dictionary of Archaeology.
- Was There Pre-Columbian Contact between Polynesia and America?
- Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceria), Asian domesticate found in pre-contact Americas
- Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), American domesticate found in pre-contact Polynesia
- Chicken (Gallus domesticus), Asian domesticate, found in pre-contact Chile
- El Arenal-1 (Chile) where pre-contact chickens have been discovered
- Chumash and Polynesian Canoes, possible links between canoe styles and fishhooks
- Mocha Island (Chile), where possible Polynesian skeletal material has been identified
Anderson A. 2006. Polynesian Seafaring And American Horizons: A Response To Jones And Klar. American Antiquity 71(4):759-765.
Arnold JE. 1992. Complex hunter-gatherer-fishers of prehistoric California: Chiefs, specialists, and maritime adaptations of the Channel Islands. American Antiquity 57(1):60-84.
Arnold JE. 2007. Credit Where Credit Is Due: The History of the Chumash Oceangoing Plank Canoe. American Antiquity 72(2):196-209.
Baudouin L, and Lebrun P. 2009. Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) DNA studies support the hypothesis of an ancient Austronesian migration from Southeast Asia to America. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 56:257-262.
Cassidy J, Raab LM, and Kononeko NA. 2004. Boats, Bones, and Bifaces: The Early Holocene Mariners of Eel Point, San Clemente Island, California. American Antiquity 69(1):109-130.
Clarke AC, et al. 2006. Reconstructing the Origins and Dispersal of the Polynesian Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria). Molecular Biology and Evolution 23(5):893-900. Free to download
Fagan B. 2004. The House of the Sea: An Essay on the Antiquity of Planked Canoes in Southern California. American Antiquity 69(1):7-16.
Fitzpatrick SM, and Callaghan RT. 2009. Examining dispersal mechanisms for the translocation of chicken (Gallus gallus) from Polynesia to South America. Journal of Archaeological Science 36(2):214-223.
Gamble LH. 2002. Archaeological Evidence for the Origin of the Plank Canoe in North America. American Antiquity 67(2):301-316.
Gamble LH, Walker PL, and Russell GS. 2002. Further Considerations on the Emergence of Chumash Chiefdoms. American Antiquity 67(4):772-777.
Gongora J et al. 2008. Indo-European and Asian origins for Chilean and Pacific chickens revealed by mtDNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(30):10308-10313. Free to download
Jones TL, and Klar KA. 2005. Diffusionism Reconsidered: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Polynesian Contact with Southern California. American Antiquity 70(3):457-484.
Jones TL, and Klar KA. 2006. On Open Minds and Missed Marks: A Response to Atholl Anderson. American Antiquity 71(4):765-771.
Kehoe A. 2010. Consensus and the Fringe in American Archaeology. Archaeologies 6(2):197-214.
Landberg LCW. 1966. Tuna Tagging and the Extra-Oceanic Distribution of Curved, Single-Piece Shell Fishhooks in the Pacific. American Antiquity 31(4):485-493.
Montenegro A, Avis C, and Weaver A. 2008. Modeling the prehistoric arrival of the sweet potato in Polynesia. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(2):355-367.
Storey AA et al. 2007. Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, June 4, 2007. Free to download
Storey AA et al. 2008. Pre-Columbian chickens, dates, isotopes, and mtDNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(48):E99. Free to download
