Pyramids of tucume thor heyerdahl biography
Pyramids of tucume thor heyerdahl biography
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The Voyages and Adventures of Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl – explorer or showman:
Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl’s experimental sea voyages in traditionallybuilt papyrus reed or balsa wood boats were not to prove that ancient man had crossed the oceans of the world, but that they had the capability to do so.
His views on colonisation by way of the oceans are still often misunderstood. Heyerdahl was usually lumped in with the new age writers even though he scorned that discipline for their misuse and abuse of archaeology while at the same time often criticising academics for not reaching out beyond their scientific paradigms.
Heyerdahl was an anthropologist and explorer.
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Born in Larvik, Norway, 1914, he first came to fame when in 1947, he and a group of men sailed from Peru to Polynesia in the balsa-wood raft called Kon-Tiki. He had wanted to investigate whether Polynesian myths about settlers from the East were true.
The Kon-Tiki did make it westward to Polynesi