New research backs the ‘Kon-Tiki hypothesis’ Even at the time, the established scientific consensus-backed by an impressive mass of linguistic and archaeological evidence, and amply reinforced by subsequent genetic research-had long pointed to island Southeast Asia (modern day Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan) as the ancestral homeland of the first peoples of the Pacific. And, by smashing into a reef in the Tuamotu Archipelago after 101 days at sea, Kon-Tiki’s crew (minus poor Lolita) had at least proved this theory possible. This epic 8000 km odyssey was undertaken to test Heyerdahl’s pet hypothesis that the first inhabitants of the Pacific islands were native South Americans. The Kon-Tiki expedition crew waves from the homemade balsa wood and bamboo raft (1947). A seventh crew member, the Spanish-speaking parrot Lolita, was sadly lost at sea enroute. In 1947, as recounted in the international best-seller The Kon-Tiki Expedition, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five companions voyaged from Peru to Polynesia aboard a handbuilt balsa-wood raft, the eponymous Kon-Tiki. Is the Genetic Literacy Project a corporate ‘front’? GLP responds to ongoing false allegations from US Right to Know / Organic Consumers Association / SourceWatch / Baum Hedlund / Church of ScientologyĪn eccentric theory of human seagoing migration-made famous by one of the most insanely suicidal ‘scientific’ experiments ever undertaken-has recently resurfaced with a splash.GLP Integrity Policies: Privacy, Conflicts of Interest, Verification, Fact-Checking Standards and Corrections.Mission, Financial Transparency and Governance.

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