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2. The Early Peoples of Pre-Columbian America: Ivan van Sertima and His Critics
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kamugisha,Aaron K. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(2) : 234-253
- Notes:
- Since its publication in 1976, Ivan van Sertima's book They Came Before Columbus has gone through 21 printings, while receiving widespread--though not unanimous--condemnation from the American archaeological establishment, culminating in a hostile, full-length forum in Current Anthropology. And yet, startlingly, the field of American archaeology has recently found itself in the midst of a major paradigm shift, caused by archaeological evidence that obliterates the Clovis model as a legitimate demarcation of the first presence of human settlement in the New World. Kamugisha proposes to trace the response to They Came Before Columbus, while discussing the issue of diffusionism in van Sertima's work.;