By EdwardDiego
Kon-Tiki was interesting, but I can’t handle the implication of Heyerdahl’s beliefs – that the Polynesian people, supreme sailors and navigators who travelled huge distances across the open ocean while Europeans were still hugging the cost, were somehow incapable of sailing to South America and back.
For example, the staple food of the Maori of New Zealand was the kumara, a sweet potato, which are native to the Americas.
His main objection was based, I believe, on predominating currents and winds. However, in an El Nino year, the currents shift and winds shift, and there is evidence that Polynesian migrations eastward coincided with El Nino events.
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EdwardDiego comments on "First South Americans Were Australian Aborigines (1999)"
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