Eric de bisschop biography samples
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The Seafaring Of Depiction Kaimiloa
Book Source:Digital Collection of Bharat Item 2015.524353
dc.contributor.author: Bisschop Eric De
dc.contributor.author: Ceppi Marc
dc.date.accessioned: 2015-10-01T18:28:07Z
dc.date.available: 2015-10-01T18:28:07Z
dc.date.copyright: 1940
dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 2010/01/12
dc.date.citation: 1940
dc.identifier.barcode: 99999990848997
dc.identifier.origpath: /data11/data53/upload/0030/589
dc.identifier.copyno: 1
dc.identifier.uri: http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/524353
dc.description.scanningcentre: C-DAC, Noida
dc.description.main: 1
dc.description.tagged: 0
dc.description.totalpages: 326
dc.format.mimetype: application/pdf
dc.language.iso: English
dc.publisher.digitalrepublisher: Digital Library unsaved India
dc.publisher: G.bell And Curriculum Ltd. London
dc.rights: Not Available
dc.source.library: Durga Monarch Municipal Defeat Library Nainital
dc.subject.classification: Generalities
dc.title: Interpretation Voyage Admire The Kaimiloa
dc.type: Print - Paper
dc.type: Book
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Recreating The Migration Route Of The Proto Polynesians
The first of two papers, delivered by James Wharram at the ‘Early Man and the Ocean’ conference, held at Norwegian Maritime Museum & Kontiki Museum, Oslo.
In a few weeks I will be 80 years old. As a young man, dreaming of sea adventure, I was inspired by Thor Heyerdahl and his 1947 Kontiki voyage. We must never forget, with his Kontiki voyage, Heyerdahl revolutionised the approach to marine archaeology. With this voyage, he established the basic premises of Experimental Marine Archaeology, which continue to this day.
Heyerdahl had addressed himself to THIS problem: “How had Pacific Ocean Man arrived across 1000s of miles of ocean in the central Pacific islands?”
He had studied an abundance of data from South America, which led him to believe that the settlement of the central Pacific islands came from the South American Pacific coast.
Writing about this collected data, Heyerdahl could have had a secure academic life. What Heyerdahl did 60 years ago, was to risk his life and those of his friends to sail a small – the size of a medium sized modern yacht – historic Peruvian coastal Balsa raft across the Pacific.
He proved that such a simple craft was
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Voyaging and Isolation in Rapa Nui Prehistory
Ben Finney, Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, Manoa
...the most important and central fact leading to an understanding of Easter Island culture-history is its unusual degree of isolation by sea. (William Mulloy 1979:111).
The trend of Pacific Island settlement has been eastwards. Some 50,000 years ago when vast quantities of water locked in the glaciers greatly lowered sea levels, early seafarers – probably traveling by raft – crossed the narrowed channels from Sunda, the extension of mainland Southeast Asia that most of Indonesia had become, to Sahul, a great continent formed by New Guinea, Australia and surrounding continental shelves. Around 1,500 B.C., well after the glaciers had receded and sea levels had risen, canoe voyagers with roots in Southeast Asia pushed eastwards from islands off the north shore of New Guinea, and moved rapidly through island Melanesia to reach the mid-Pacific archipelagos of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. Their identifiably Polynesian descendants then spread farther eastwards, reaching all the way to Rapa Nui perhaps as early as 400 A.D.
A solution to the puzzle of why Polynesia should have been settled by the descendants of seafarers who began on the faraway Asian side of the Pacific, rather t