donald r raab Wrote:
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> Kon Tiki was right after all. Regardless of
> direction.

[www.google.com]
"The 101-day, 4,300-mile journey came to an abrupt ending on Aug. 7, 1947, after the Kon-Tiki grounded on a reef off Raroia, an atoll in French Polynesia. There were no casualties, but the Kon-Tiki was smashed by waves."
Looks to me like Thor was successful in designing a one-way shipwreck.
How about a new movie: The Kon-Titanic?
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[www.tandfonline.com]
"It is further argued that this separation between contemporary Polynesians and the Polynesian archaeological record would form the foundation for the dual migration wave hypothesis Heyerdahl later launched with his ‘Kon-Tiki theory’."
Here is evidence to back up that paper:
[www.jstor.org]
The Upper Palaeolithic and the New World
E. F. Greenman
Current Anthropology
Vol. 4, No. 1 (Feb., 1963), pp. 41-91
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
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Page 74:
"One may dispute Greenman's conclusions, but the feasibility of his North Atlantic route should be seriously considered." ---Thor Heyerdahl
This hypothesis had been around (and refuted several times since 1912) and the latest reincarnation has been: [www.ucpress.edu]
Also soundly rejected once again by multiple workers in multiple fields, including DNA.
Why did Heyerdahl think it reasonable? Because it put Europeans into the Americas first.
What do Native Americans think of this hypothesis? Sorry, can't repeat it since this is a family-friendly group.