How Long to Read Ancient Ocean Crossings

How Long Does it Take to Read Ancient Ocean Crossings?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 8 minutes to read Ancient Ocean Crossings by Stephen C. Jett

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth’s two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans that covered that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting terrestrial distances, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant and concrete evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development.

How long is Ancient Ocean Crossings?

Ancient Ocean Crossings by Stephen C. Jett is 529 pages long, and a total of 137,011 words.

This makes it 179% the length of the average book. It also has 167% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ancient Ocean Crossings Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 28 minutes to read Ancient Ocean Crossings aloud.

What Reading Level is Ancient Ocean Crossings?

Ancient Ocean Crossings is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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