BIRTH OF OCEANIA 1/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; icholas Thomas, author, @MAACambridge.
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🗓️ 31 July 2023
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BIRTH OF OCEANIA 1/4: Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; icholas Thomas, author, @MAACambridge.
https://www.amazon.com/Voyagers-Settlement-Pacific-Nicholas-Thomas/dp/1541619838
An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.
The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean?
In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake
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| 0:27.2 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm John Bachelorette, and I welcome a great privilege, |
| 0:32.0 | Professor Nicholas Thomas, Professor of Historical Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, |
| 0:37.0 | Director of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, |
| 0:40.8 | to help me with his new book. |
| 0:43.2 | Wonderful story about the Pacific Rim Basin, |
| 0:46.8 | where I've been several times in my life, |
| 0:48.8 | ignorant of the questions I didn't know existed, |
| 0:51.7 | about where this wonderful culture came from that I visited in Hawaii, |
| 0:56.8 | where it's going now in the 21st century, given its history. |
| 1:01.8 | The new book is Voyagers, the settlement of the Pacific. |
| 1:04.8 | Professor, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:06.7 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:07.6 | Congratulations. |
| 1:09.1 | And I take you to a moment in your |
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