Diffusion Reconsidered: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Polynesian Contact with Southern California

Abstract

ONE OF THE MOST EAGERLY AWAITED PAPERS in anthropology is at last in print: Terry Jones and Kathryn KIar's case for transoceanic contact between Polynesians and the Chumash of southern California. It is appropriate that their paper should appear in an important venue as American Antiquity, as it has implications for the entire discipline of archaeology, extending beyond the two geographic areas upon which it focuses.