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PeterH Mar 17, 2006 21:07:42
Replying to gorseddphungus

Now, with the discussion widening to include Easter Island and the Pacific, we really are in Thor Heyerdahl territory. He showed that balsa rafts could cross the Pacific, that reed boats could cross the Atlantic and were painted on the walls of Tassili in the Sahara when it was green and fertile. He also reckoned that the Berbers crossed the Atlantic. Even though genetics later disproved some of his ideas about the direction of movement and settlement of islands in the Pacific, his books are still worth reading and are mind expanding. He died a year or so ago aged about 80 and was still working on pyramids in Peru at Tucume.

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gorseddphungus Mar 17, 2006 22:21:46
Replying to PeterH

"Now, with the discussion widening to include Easter Island and the Pacific, we really are in Thor Heyerdahl territory. "

All of that you are saying is quite far out. I will have to get into that TH link eventually.

Ancient navigation was a reality but how ancient I can't tell. If it really was that ancient (between 20,000-10,000 or even earlier if we really want to make the earlier Americans the 'second') then all that is needed now is the beginning of archaeological corroboration for his theories.

It is certainly a very strong possibility. Climate events may also have sparked human movements across the oceans.

I must admit I knew about the thread that Hob mentions but never really got into it. Far too much for my general lack of time. I will bookmark it though. Perhaps we are going in circles with things already said there.

Cheers
XXX
GP