Prehistoric Transpacific Contact and the Theory of Culture Change

Employing genetic theory as an analog, the paper argues that when the concept of culture is separated from the concept of society, anthropology can be shown to have depended for culture‐change theory on a genetic model, which predicts pre‐Columbian contact between the Old and New World, a prediction which is supported by a growing list of cultural parallels . [prehistoric transpacific contact, culture, society, culture change, scientific explanation]