![]() ![]() wire,etc) and set off on the 4000 mile journey with 5 other explorers and a parrot. To prove his theory, Heyerdahl built a craft using materials exactly like the ancient Peruvians (no metal - nails. ![]() It was not believed that rafts could make a journey of that magnitude. The main argument against Heyerdahl's theory was that ancient Peruvians did not have boats - they had balsa wood rafts. Basically, Norwegian anthropologist/botonist/zoologist/other-titles-ending-in-ists Thor Heyerdahl, after living in Polynesia conducting graduate level research, hypothesized that the islands were populated by Peruvians from traveling from the east - and not from peoples of Asia, which was the widely-accepted belief. ![]() I am embarrassed to admit that I had not heard of this book, expedition, or the theory behind it all, but I am glad I corrected that. ![]()
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