The Children of the Sun

Much like the nineteenth century, as discussed in Chapters 3 and 4 , the early to mid-twentieth century saw a continuing proliferation of trans-Pacific contact ideas and theories linking OceaniaOceania (also Oceanian) with the AmericasAmericas, the. This intellectual multiplication stemmed from the publication and availability of texts from previous centuries which discussed comparable ideas and deployed evidenceLinguistic(s) (including language(s))evidence suggestive of such contacts, including some of the sixteenth-century publications discussed in Chapter 2 , some of which were facilitated by Markham, as mentioned in Chapter 4 .