Ideas About Long-Distance Sailing Techniques, Traditions, and Theories

The years between 1950 and 2020 brought a series of hypotheses about trans-Pacific contacts driven by scientificExpeditionsscientific research on long-distanceNavigation (or sailing, or seafaring, or voyages)long-distance sailing techniquesNavigation (or sailing, or seafaring, or voyages)techniques (or technology) and traditionsTradition(s). Scholarship suggests a west to eastMigrationeastward migrationMigration route for the original settlement of the Pacific. However, as discussed in previous chapters, earlier studies arguing that evidence pointed to pre-ColumbianColumbus, Christopherpre-Columbian interactions between PolynesiansPolynesia(n) and AmerindiansAmerindian, have been revived since 1950 to suggest that EcuadorEcuador (also Ecuadorian), CaliforniaCalifornia, and parts of ChileChile (also Chilean) were potential points of contact between the Pacific Islands and the AmericasAmericas, the.