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Heyerdahl speculates there was an uprising of " Short Ears " against the ruling " Long Ears.
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Just before sailing together to the Marquesas Islands in 1936, Heyerdahl married his first wife, Liv Coucheron-Torp ( b. 1916 ), whom he had met shortly before enrolling at the university, and who had studied economics there.
Heyerdahl, who had nearly drowned at least twice in childhood, did not take easily to water, and said later that there were times in each of his raft voyages when he feared for his life.
Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical fair-skinned people in Peru.
When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers.
Philologists and historians reject these parallels as mere coincidences, and also anachronisms, for instance the city of Azov did not have that name until over 1000 years after Heyerdahl claims the Æsir dwellt there.
Mainstream linguists and historians will say that the city of Azov got its name from the Turks, over 1000 years after Heyerdahl believes the Æsir lived there.
Heyerdahl had studied the ancient people of South America and Polynesia and believed that there was a link between the two.
However, the issue of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl confirmed there was contact between the ancient Peruvians and people from Polynesia.
When Thor Heyerdahl visited the island in 1938, there were only a few goats and remains of deserted huts and villages.
This was one of the factors that led Thor Heyerdahl to theorize that there was pre-European contact between Polynesia and South America.
Heyerdahl and was
Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.
Thor Heyerdahl ( October 6, 1914, Larvik, Norway – April 18, 2002, Colla Micheri, Italy ) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in zoology and geography.
Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, the son of master brewer Thor Heyerdahl and his wife Alison Lyng.
Heyerdahl claimed that these people could count their ancestors who were " white-skinned " right back to the time of Tiki and Hotu Matua, when they first came sailing across the sea " from a mountainous land in the east which was scorched by the sun.
The oral history of the people of Easter Island, at least as it was documented by Heyerdahl, is completely consistent with this theory, as is the archaeological record he examined ( Heyerdahl 1958 ).
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 ).
Davis says that Heyerdahl " ignored the overwhelming body of linguistic, ethnographic, and ethnobotanical evidence, augmented today by genetic and archaeological data, indicating that he was patently wrong.
Heyerdahl built yet another reed boat, Tigris, which was intended to demonstrate that trade and migration could have linked Mesopotamia with the Indus Valley Civilization in what is now modern-day Pakistan.
In the years that followed, Heyerdahl was often outspoken on issues of international peace and the environment.
The Tigris was crewed by eleven men: Thor Heyerdahl ( Norway ), Norman Baker ( USA ),
Based on this and other published documentation, Heyerdahl proposed that Azerbaijan was the site of an ancient advanced civilization.
The controversy surrounding the Search for Odin project was in many ways typical of the relationship between Heyerdahl and the academic community.
Heyerdahl was also an active figure in Green politics.
In subsequent years, Heyerdahl was involved with many other expeditions and archaeological projects.
The voyage, organized by Torgeir Higraff and called the Tangaroa Expedition, was intended as a tribute to Heyerdahl, an effort to better understand navigation via centerboards (" quara ") as well as a means to monitor the Pacific Ocean's environment.
* The Thor Heyerdahl Institute was established in 2000.
Norwegian scientist / adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, convinced that early contact between the peoples of South America and Polynesia was possible, built the raft Kon Tiki from balsa logs, and upon it he and his crew sailed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the Polynesian Tuamotu Archipelago in 1947.
Due to a dispute with Thor Heyerdahl, famous for his Kon-Tiki raft used in his expedition in 1947, the name was later changed to Tiki 100.
Heyerdahl and uprising
During the uprising, Heyerdahl claimed, the " Long Ears " ignited their moat and retreated behind it, but the " Short Ears " found a way around it, came up from behind, and pushed all but two of the " Long Ears " into the fire.
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After the last book the attacks against Heyerdahl were also worded in a way that by many was seen as disrespectful.
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* In 1969 and 1970 Thor Heyerdahl launched expeditions to cross the Atlantic in boats built from papyrus.
* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
In the mid-1980s, the Maldivian government allowed the popular Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, to excavate ancient sites.
Despite the clear evidence that all the ancient ruins in Maldives are Buddhist, Heyerdahl claimed that early " sun-worshiping seafarers ", called the " Redin ", first settled on the islands.
* 1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
* 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer ( d. 2002 )
* May 17 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
** Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer ( b. 1914 )
Heyerdahl subsequently made other voyages designed to demonstrate the possibility of contact between widely separated ancient peoples.
In May 2011, the Thor Heyerdahl Archives were added to UNESCO's " Memory of the World " Register.
The Heyerdahl Archives span the years 1937 to 2002 and include his photographic collection, diaries, private letters, expedition plans, articles, newspaper clippings, original book and article manuscripts.
The Heyerdahl Archives are administered by the Kon-Tiki Museum and the National Library of Norway in Oslo.
As a young child, Heyerdahl showed a strong interest in zoology.
In 1949 Heyerdahl married Yvonne Dedekam-Simonsen.
Heyerdahl blamed their separation on his being away from home and differences in their ideas for bringing up children.
In 1991, Heyerdahl married Jacqueline Beer ( b. 1932 ) as his third wife.
Heyerdahl died on April 18, 2002, in Colla Micheri in Italy where he had gone to spend the Easter holidays with some of his closest family members.
In the Kon-Tiki expedition, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers went to Peru, they constructed a pae-pae raft from balsa wood and other native materials, a raft that they called the Kon-Tiki.
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