" The ethnographic evidence for these claims is outlined in Heyerdahl's book Aku Aku: The Secret of Easter Island.

However, recent scientific investigation that compares the DNA of some of the Polynesian islands with natives from Peru suggests that there is some merit to Heyerdahl's ideas and that while Polynesia was colonized from Asia, some contact with South America also existed.

The institute is located in Heyerdahl's birth town in Larvik, Norway.

The Search for Odin ( Norwegian: Jakten på Odin ) is the project title of Thor Heyerdahl's last series of archaeological excavations, which took place in Azov ( Tanais ) in Russia.

Kon-Tiki is also the name of Heyerdahl's book and the Academy Award-winning documentary film chronicling his adventures.

Mr. Muhammad Lutfee is seen holding this Makara head in one of the pictures of Thor Heyerdahl's book.

Blood samples taken in 1971 and 2008 from Easter Islanders without any European or other external descent were analysed in a 2011 study, which concluded that the evidence supported some aspects of Heyerdahl's hypothesis.

Alongside the raft, the museum houses various artefacts related to Heyerdahl's other expeditions and a changing program of temporary exhibitions explores his life and work.

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

* Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki crossed the Pacific Ocean proving the practical possibility that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

In particular, Heyerdahl obtained a radiocarbon date of 400 for a charcoal fire located in the pit that was held by the people of Easter Island to have been used as an " oven " by the " Long Ears ," which Heyerdahl's Rapa Nui sources, reciting oral tradition, identified as a white race which had ruled the island in the past ( Heyerdahl 1958 ).

Since then, they have purchased and renovated Heyerdahl's childhood home, arranged a yearly raft regatta in his honour at the end of summer and begun to develop a Heyerdahl centre.

The excavations performed in Tanais, near the entry of the Don into the Black Sea, have shown that Tanais actually did have a population at the time of the supposed emigration of the Æsir ( sometime around 60 B. C., according to Heyerdahl's interpretation of the references to Roman expansion into the Caucasus ).

* August 7-Thor Heyerdahl's balsa-wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4300-mile ( 6900-km ) journey across the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled from South America.

None of them have been properly investigated, although a Makara ( sea monster ) head in stone was found during Thor Heyerdahl's expedition.

After seven terms and consultations with experts in Berlin, a project was developed and sponsored by Heyerdahl's zoology professors, Kristine Bonnevie and Hjalmar Broch.

* The ' Tigris ' expedition, with Heyerdahl's war protest Azerbaijan International, Vol.

Both the first book detailing the Odin project, Ingen grenser from 1999, and the second book, Jakten på Odin from 2001, were met with a forceful and detailed response from leading academics in which the reasons were laid out to the wider public as to why Heyerdahl's theory in their view was false.

The book begins with Heyerdahl's optimistic idea that paradise could still be found.

Following the developments of mitochondrial genetics, Sykes traces back human migrations, discusses the " out of Africa theory " and casts serious doubt upon Heyerdahl's theory of the Peruvian origin of the Polynesians, which opposed the theory of their origin in Indonesia.

* July 12 – Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados.

Heyerdahl's book about the expedition, The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, has been translated into over 67 languages.

Heyerdahl's theory of Polynesian origins never gained acceptance among anthropologists.

Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis also criticised Heyerdahl's theory in his book The Wayfinders, which explores the history of Polynesia.

Heyerdahl's popular book on the subject, Aku-Aku was another international best-seller.

On Heyerdahl's visit to Baku in 1999, he lectured at the Academy of Sciences about the history of ancient Nordic Kings.

, Heyerdahl's Odin hypothesis has never been validated or tried successfully by any historian, archaeologist, or linguist.

* Heyerdahl's expeditions were spectacular and caught the public imagination.

* Heyerdahl's grandson, Olav Heyerdahl, retraced his grandfather's Kon-Tiki voyage in 2006 as part of a six-member crew.

Heyerdahl himself agreed to the founding of the institute and it aims to promote and continue to develop Heyerdahl's ideas and principles.

Heyerdahl's intention was to prove the veracity of the account of Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century, about the origin of the Norse royal dynasties, and the pre-Christian Norse gods.

Heyerdahl's Odin project was subjected to fierce criticism from Norwegian academics within the fields of research upon which the theory touches.

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Several theoretical problems have been found with the AAH, and some claims made by the AAH have been challenged as having explanations aside from a period of aquatic adaptation.

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A highly skeptical Lieberman tries to brush Kohler's claims aside, telling him that it is a long-established fact that Mengele is dead.

Part of the result would include setting aside reserves for future claims payments ; that is, reserves both for claims that had been notified but not yet paid, and estimated amounts required for claims which have been " incurred but not reported " ( IBNR ).

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( By contrast, within a stock company, an initial reserve for future claims liabilities is set aside immediately, “ in year 1 ”.

Pope Paul III attempted to regain Piacenza ; he set aside Ottavio's claims to the succession of Parma, where he appointed a papal legate, giving him back Camerino in exchange, and then claimed Piacenza from the emperor — not for the Farnese, but for the Church.

According to the claims of some European sources, aside from the knights there was a greater number of lighter cavalry, and perhaps 10, 000 foot soldiers, supplemented by crossbowmen from the Italian merchant fleet, and a large number of mercenaries ( including Turcopoles ) hired with money donated to the kingdom by Henry II of England.

On April 13, the three-judge panel issued its final ruling, sweeping aside all of Coleman's legal claims and declaring Franken the winner of the race by 312 votes.

Having pushed Horemheb's claims aside, Ay proceeded to nominate the aforementioned military officer named Nakhtmin who was possibly Ay's son or adopted son, to succeed him rather than Horemheb.

In 1748, Britain and France agreed to put aside their claims and Saint Vincent was declared a neutral island, under no European sovereign.

In the few instances in which courts have been confronted with the assertion that TONA was indeed ratified, judges have brushed those claims aside.

After his conviction, claims were made that a desk carved with his name remained at the school ( and caretakers would run trips to the cellars to show it to first year pupils ), but they were put aside when a teacher of 30 years at the school said the desk had been removed over 20 years previously.

In the wake of the election, Edge called for party unity, and Johnson attempted to brush aside any damage to Edge by denying claims that the election results meant the end of his political career or that the election had been against Edge.

All circus profits from the time of the fire until then had been set aside to pay off these claims.

There she told Lord Hutton that she regarded Kelly's remarks about the involvement of Alastair Campbell in the strengthening of claims in the dossier as no more than a " glib statement " and a " gossipy aside " for which Kelly had no evidence.

The Coalition, as well as Rob Oakeshott, Andrew Wilkie and Tony Windsor, have called on Slipper to continue to stand aside pending a resolution of the sexual harassment claims.

While Mill admits that these freedoms could — in certain situations — be pushed aside, he claims that in contemporary and civilized societies there is no justification for their removal.

Panera set aside $ 5 million for the payment of claims.

Diogenes claims however that he tossed it aside.