diffusionist

Dismissal of the possibility of King Arthur's death in North America is characteristic, in Stengel's view, of the "professional and popular disregard" of "unorthodox inquiries ... generally known as diffusionist studies, that presuppose intentional contact with the Americas by civilizations across both the Pacific and the Atlantic, beginning sometime in the late Stone Age (7000-3000 B.C.)."

Insight: Camelot in Kentucky 2001

He was, in short, a committed diffusionist; he made no allowance for the possibility of independent invention and parallel development elsewhere.

Joseph Needham Biography Jan 2008

He was, in short, a committed diffusionist; he made no allowance for the possibility of independent invention and parallel development elsewhere.

Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

A female diffusionist was a double loser in this business.

SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

The diffusionist theory had always faced a major hurdle:the absence of scientifically verified evidence that would prove contact between one hemisphere and another before Columbus.

SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

A female diffusionist was a double loser in this business.

SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

The diffusionist theory had always faced a major hurdle:the absence of scientifically verified evidence that would prove contact between one hemisphere and another before Columbus.

SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

But if the best he can do to support his argument for the theory of substrate influence on Creoles is to cite the influence of a Black Creole Portuguese on Hawaiian Creole English, then he must be a wildly enthusiastic diffusionist.

Roots of Creole Holm, John 1982

Ouch, Nina thought, I’m thinking like a diffusionist.

SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

Ouch, Nina thought, I’m thinking like a diffusionist.

SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000