In the Wake of the Jomon

The thrilling account of an extraordinary journey in the tradition of Kon-TikiIn 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton was found beside the Columbia River, galvanizing anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from Asia by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In this compelling narrative, world-class kayaker and science writer Jon Turk relates his successful attempt to re-create this perilous migration. This story wraps an intriguing anthropological argument inside a gripping narrative about the sea, an ancient people, and the wilderness of northeast Siberia.Recounting his two-year, 3,000-mile kayak voyage from Japans bamboo forests to the tundra of Siberia and Alaska, Turk introduces strong archeological and anthropological evidence that his expedition was not the first. He explains how the ancient Jomon people could have completed this journey 10,000 to 15,000 years ago and provides insight into the questio...'

המשפט הראשון: MY KAYAK slid gently off a wave and settled into an eerie calm, sheltered by mesmerizing gray-green walls of water.

שנה

2005

שפה

English

הוצאה

International Marine/McGraw-Hill

מהדורות

5

עמודים

312

ISBN

9780071449021

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata