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- If you haven't, you need to read Kon-Tiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kon-Tiki_Expedition:_By_Ra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition
Fascinating stuff!
- The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
- Sounds like part of Thor Heyerdahl's larger theory of vikings everywhere. Part of the story was folks settling the Pacific from South America, recreated in the Kon-Tiki expedition.
Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have reached Polynesia during pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so.
- Along these lines let's not forget the Kon Tiki expedition. In 1947 Heyerdahl & crew wanted to show if, using a simple raft, South Americans could have reached Polynesia in the era prior to Columbus in 1492. Modern genetic analysis now seems to back up his idea long after he made his successful voyage.
https://www.kon-tiki.no/expeditions/kon-tiki-expedition/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition
- Check out Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon Tiki expedition. I believe that his theory was about religions and this pacific drift phenomena. There’s a very cool museum outside of Oslo.
I think that their findings have eventually been proven less meaningful than they thought, but still cool.
- Highly recommend reading the book Kontiki (or watch the movie) for the incredible story of Thor Heyerdahl demonstrating that sailing on a raft from South America to Polynesia is possible and a theory that now seems even more likely with the current DNA evidence.
