Queen Moo from Chichén Itzá and the Lost Pacific Continent

Ideas about trans-Pacific contact did not begin in the nineteenth century, as we have seen in the previous chapter, but this was certainly the century in which they blossomed and developed a more empirical basis. They resulted from the more active European exploration of the Pacific that took place after 1750, mainly led by French and British sailors, which led to important naming and cartographic efforts, and to the racial classification of Pacific inhabitants.