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Thor Heyerdahl
Who: Norwegian adventurer and archaeologist.
What: Famously sailed a raft over 4,000 miles (6,450km) basically to prove a point.
Where: Born in Larvik, Norway.
Why: Famous mainly for his Kon-Tiki expedition and its legacy.
When: October 6 1914 – April 18 2002.
“Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity” – Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl is the kind of person you wouldn’t want to start an…
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Thor Heyerdahl believed that South American people, using boats similar to those used by the Uros people of Lake Titicaca, could have sailed across the ocean currents of the Pacific, from Peru to Polynesia, to inhabit Easter Island. He thought that the mysterious Moai statues found there resembled the pre-Inca statues found near Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia today. Many disagreed with his theory and many more thought Heyerdahl was mad, but new genetic evidence showing unmistakable Native American DNA in the population of Easter Island, could prove that there was, in fact, a migration of indigenous people from South America, who mixed with the original Polynesian inhabitants before the catastrophic changes in the ecosystem that caused the population to plummet.
-Laura Stark
Thor Heyerdahl
