>constantly wanked by schizo pseudo-archaeologists as proof that there must have been contact between the old world and the new and/or that academia should stop being so closed-minded>one of the main things it sought to prove (beyond the schizo we wuz bearded Peruvian kangz n shiet), the idea that polynesians must be native americans from the west coast of North America and not austronesians from Taiwan, got decisively disproven by modern linguistics and genetics and we now know as a matter of absolute fact that they did indeed migrate from Asia and not America>thus making the whole voyage ultimate proof that just because something is technically possible, it doesn't mean it happenedDamn...
I remember reading the story about Kon-Tiki when I was in 3rd gradeBut it was only last year when I found out Thor Heyerdahl believed that Native American people worshiped white gods (the white Quetzlcoatl thing) and that his expedition was to prove that white people originally colonized Polynesia
>>18471960he wasn't wrong
>>18472026>being white>associated with high ranking ancestry>associated with divinityhow will the brownoids recover from this one?
>>18472026Lots of Melanesians have blonde hair, are they descended from white people too?
>>18472035the same way modern day middle easterners are descended from the old covenant tribe, which is to say technically yes but not in a meaningful way
>>18472042Stop thinking about Jews all day
>>18472033By continuing to reproduce while your racist ass pays for our livelihoods stupid racist lol
>>18472055>I'm a useless parasitetell me something I didn't already know
>>18472042Objectively wrong since blond hair in melanesians is caused by an entirely separate gene and genetic mutation from the one that causes blond hair in eurasian populations
>>18471960>the white Quetzlcoatl thingin case people aren't aware, this is bullshithttps://desuarchive.org/his/thread/17404007/#17407659
>>18471941>implying that there was only one wave or one source of Polynesian population
>>18471960>when I found outfrom redd-it, no doubt. Heyerdahl believed that bearded whites did visit south america, left a cultural footprint, which then was taken to polynesia by the peruvian indians. he did not claim polynesians originated from south america.
>>18473623>he did not claim polynesians originated from south america.Yeah, he instead claimed they were Tlingit/Haida relatives from North America because he refused to believe they were from Asia since he thought they were too dumb to have sailed against the currentAnd he did in fact also believe that the magic Peruvian whites got there before the north american polynesians did and must have been the ones who did all the cool stuff in Easter Island
>>18471941there were sweet potatoes in polynesia and they used the quechua name for them>b but some of his hypothesis were bunkywnb a strong, tall, good looking, blond norwegian adventurer, crossing an ocean on a primitive craft you built with your own hands
>>18472035Mii/May?
>Thor Heyerdahlliterally my grand-uncle
>>18474242That doesn't say much, Norwegians are all inbred.
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