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Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began as soon as outsiders encountered them; in the absence of solid lingui
Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began as soon as outsiders encountered them; in the absence of solid lingui
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2014-09-29
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Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began as soon as outsiders encountered them; in the absence of solid linguistic, archaeological, and biological data, many fanciful and
mutually exclusive
theories were devised. Pacific islanders were variously thought to have come from North America, South America, Egypt, Israel, and India, as well as Southeast Asia. Many older theories implicitly deprecated the navigational abilities and overall cultural creativity of the Pacific islanders. For example, British anthropologists G. Elliot Smith and W. J. Perry assumed that only Egyptians would have been skilled enough to navigate and colonize the Pacific. They inferred that the Egyptians even crossed the Pacific to found the great civilizations of the New World(North and South America). In 1947 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl drifted on a balsa-log raft westward with the winds and currents across the Pacific from South America to prove his theory that Pacific islanders were Native Americans(also called American Indians). Later Heyerdahl suggested that the Pacific was peopled by three migrations: by Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest of North America drifting to Hawaii, by Peruvians drifting to Easter Island, and by Melanesians. In 1969 he crossed the Atlantic in an Egyptian-style reed boat to prove Egyptian influences in the Americas. Contrary to these theorists, the
overwhelming
evidence of physical anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology shows that the Pacific islanders came from Southeast Asia and were skilled enough as navigators to sail against the prevailing winds and currents.
Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 2 about early theories of where the first inhabitants of the Pacific islands came from?
选项
A、They were generally based on solid evidence.
B、They tried to account for the origin of the characteristic features of the languages spoken by Pacific islanders.
C、They assumed that the peoples living in Southeast Asia did not have the skills needed to sail to the Pacific islands.
D、They questioned the ideas of G. Elliot Smith and W. J. Perry.
答案
C
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