24. Commentary: Section III

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION ix
5. SECTION I
6. 1. Diffusion versus Independent Development: The Bases of Controversy 5
7. 2. Diffusion and Archaeological Evidence 54
8. 3. Diffusion: Evidence and Process 60
9. 4. Style and Culture Contact 66
10. 5. Pre-Columbian Contacts—The Dryland Approach: The Impact and Influence of Teotihuacán Culture on the Pre-Columbian Civilizations of Mesoamerica 79
11. 6. Commentary: Section I 106
12. SECTION II
13. 7. The Sailing Raft as a Great Tradition 115
14. 8. Cultural Patterning as Revealed by a Study of Pre-Columbian Ax and Adz Hafting in the Old and New Worlds 139
15. 9. Pre-Columbian Chickens in America 178
16. 10. The Significance of an Apparent Relationship between the Ancient Near East and Mesoamerica 219
17. 11. Vinland and the Way Thither 242
18. 12. Quetzalcoatl: European or Indigene? 255
19. 13. A Transatlantic Stimulus Hypothesis for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, circa 3500 to 2000 B.C 266
20. 14. Small Boats upon the North Atlantic 275
21. 15. Commentary: Section II 293
22. SECTION III
23. 16. A Reevaluation of the Coconut as an Indicator of Human Dispersal 309
24. 17. Endemism and Pre-Columbian Migration of the Bottle Gourd, Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Standi 320
25. 18. Construction of the Hypothesis for Distribution of the Sweet Potato 328
26. 19, The Sweet Potato: An Exercise in Methodology 343
27. 20. Travels of Corn and Squash 366
28. 21. Pre-Columbian Maize in Asia 376
29. 22. Some Problems of Interpreting Transoceanic Dispersal of the New World Cottons 401
30. 23. Phaseolus: Diffusion and Centers of Origin 416
31. 24. Commentary: Section III 428
32. Conclusions 445
33. BIBLIOGRAPHY 459
34. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 531
35. INDEX 535