World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492 - Brossura

Sorenson, John L.

 
9780595524419: World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0595524419 ISBN 13: 9780595524419
Casa editrice: iUniverse, 2009

Sinossi

People moved into America very early across the Bering Strait. By the fifth millennia B.C.E. tropical sailors brought diseases to America and took plants and animals in both directions. Long before Columbus, tropical sailors carefully selected crops from New World highlands and shorelines, wet and dry climates, and took them to the Old World where they were grown in appropriate environments. Medicinal and psychedelic plants were traded and maintained in Egypt and Peru during separate, 1,400-year periods. This implies that maritime trade was continuous. In this groundbreaking book, learn about: 84 plants that were taken from the Americas to the Old World. What plants and animals were brought to the Americas. Why world trade was essential for transfer of so many. Interconnectedness of civilizations had to result from world trade. Dating of 18 species by archaeology with radio carbon shows dispersal. And much more! Plants, diseases, and animals from America were distributed throughout the world, across the oceans before 1492. It is time for scientists, teachers, and students to reconsider their beliefs about the early history of civilization with World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492.

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L'autore

John L. Sorenson is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University. He earned a doctorate in archeology from UCLA.Carl L. Johannessen is an emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of Oregon. He earned a doctorate in geography from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Book by Sorenson John L

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Editore
iUniverse
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0595524419
ISBN 13 
9780595524419
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
604
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Germania

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9780595513925: World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0595513921 ISBN 13:  9780595513925
Casa editrice: Authorhouse, 2009
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