NMAI copy 39088018509430 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema.
Contents:
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