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Ex Oriente Lux: Amerindian Seafaring and Easter Island Contact Revisited

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The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

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In archaeology, ex oriente lux (light from the east) refers to a model of cultural diffusion from western Asia to western Europe (Montelius 1885) that was adopted by Gordon Childe (1939), and epitomized as “the irradiation of European barbarism by Oriental civilization” (Childe 1958: 70). More recently, and stripped of its social-evolutionary labels, ex oriente lux has contextualized research on the dispersal of early ceramic technology in East Asia (Jordan and Zvelebil 2009), and I use it similarly here to approach the issue of putative South American residence in Easter Island (Rapa Nui).

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Anderson, A. (2022). Ex Oriente Lux: Amerindian Seafaring and Easter Island Contact Revisited. In: Rull, V., Stevenson, C. (eds) The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91127-0_2

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