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	Thor Heyerdahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 in Larvik, Norway–April 18, 2002 in Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian marine biologist with a great interest in anthropology, who became famous for his Kon-Tiki Expedition in which he sailed by raft 4,300 miles from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
		Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical white people in Peru.
		Heyerdahl claimed that when Roggeveen first discovered Easter Island in 1722, he supposedly noticed that many of the natives were white-skinned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl (1764 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Thor Heyerdahl, who has died of cancer aged 87, was one of the great individualistic standard-bearers of mid-20th-century adventure.
		Edited by Heyerdahl and Ferdon in 1961, it is a landmark in Pacific studies and a monument to the project.
		Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo (founded in 1949 with his wartime colleague and radio operator on the raft, Knut Haugland) have initiated, raised money for, or published the results of, projects in Rapa Nui, Pitcairn, the Marquesas islands, South America and, most recently, in Western Samoa.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4397210,00.html (2225 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl / 1914-2002 / Kon-Tiki captain sailed raft from Peru to history / Norwegian thought ancients made ...
		Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian scientist who gained worldwide fame more than a half century ago when he sailed a primitive balsa-log raft called the Kon-Tiki halfway across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia, has died at the age of 87.
		Heyerdahl, who was hospitalized during the recent Easter holiday, died of brain cancer yesterday at the family retreat in Colla Micheri in northern Italy.
		Heyerdahl also organized and led a third voyage, aboard a Sumerian-type reed boat called the Tigris, which traveled from Iraq to the Red Sea in 1977 to demonstrate the possibility of contact between the great ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and Egypt.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/04/19/MN207119.DTL&type=printable (696 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Explorer Thor Heyerdahl dies
		Thor Heyerdahl was born in Southern Norway in 1914.
		Thor Heyerdahl's expeditions fostered a close understanding of the global environment and he voiced his concern at the increasing problem of pollution which he had encountered even in the middle of the world's oceans.
		Thor Heyerdahl's controversial beliefs on human migration may have cut across the conventional wisdom of his time, but his pioneering spirit and continuing quest for understanding endeared him to millions.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1938294.stm (745 words)

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		Thor Heyerdahl the explorer, ethnologist, archaeologist, philosopher, environmentalist and author is one such individual.
		Heyerdahl, of course, clearly recognized that the expedition itself did not prove that ancient South Americans visited the South Pacific, but it did open a few scholarly eyes to the possibilities and proved a shock to scientific complacency.
		I was pleasantly relieved to find in Heyerdahl an authentic and well-balanced modern renaissance man: a dedicated, joyful and unselfish man with an abiding curiosity about this planet’s past and a sincere concern about it present and future; warm, generous, naturally charismatic and with a charming sense of humor.
	www.plu.edu /~ryandp/XTH.html (1649 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl
		The results of Heyerdahl's work were widely discussed and presented at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress in Honolulu (1961) where they were supported by the unanimous statement: "Southeast Asia and the islands adjacent constitute one major source area of the peoples and cultures of the Pacific Islands and South America".
		Thor Heyerdahl continued his research on ancienct navigation and turned his attention to the ancient reed-boats made of papyrus.
		Thor Heyerdahl is the recipient of numerous medals, awards and honours.
	www.geocities.com /dotgames/nor/th.html (1305 words)

	Sea Routes to Polynesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aquatic plants and the building of reed-boats, the use of double blade paddles, one-piece stone fish hooks, the shape of the dwellings, stone pounders, and needles, all point to the East and are not found in the West.
		It is the opinion of Thor Heyerdahl that the extensive coconut groves on the Cocos Island would be of little use to anyone unless we assume that the island was either densely inhabited or else favourably located for voyagers who frequented the area and were in need of convenient supplies.
		Thor Heyerdahl through his brilliant experiments rediscovered the secret of how the Incas could sail their rafts into the wind, and like all the ingenious inventions the trick was exceedingly simple once it was learned.
	www.bradshawfoundation.com /thor (3079 words)

	Nordic Culture > Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer and archaeologist - Scandinavica.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thor Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, in Southern Norway, the 6th October 1914.
		Thor Heyerdahl was a member of many international scientific congresses and institutions and did receive many honours and awards.
		Heyerdahl was busy working, lecturing and travelling as an active participant in archaeological expeditions until he became ill. Even after having a major cancer operation in 2001 he still remained active, and his wife Jacqueline said he boarded 70 flights in 2001.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/famous/heyerdahl.htm (1422 words)

	Pravda.RU:Thor Heyerdahl 1914-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Quite apart from being an amazing piece of seamanship, Thor Heyerdahl single-handedly showed that migration theories would have to be re-thought, since mankind would have been far more mobile in the past than had been imagined possible.
		Born in Larvik, southern Norway, in 1914, Thor Heyerdahl studied geography and zoology at Oslo University before travelling to Polynesia to study the flora and fauna.
		More than a great sailor, Thor Heyerdahl was a pioneer in the rediscovery of ancient techniques which prove that the world is, and has always been, a global village.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/04/19/27781_.html (373 words)

	Cultural Origins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thor Heyerdahl, intrepid Norwegian explorer, anthropologist and author died on April 18 in Italy.
		Heyerdahl, however, noted that the winds and currents came steadily from the east and that South American plants such as the sweet potato were to be found in Polynesia.
		Heyerdahl was a man of great personal charisma and charm and an ardent believer in friendship and cooperation across national borders.
	www.ferco.org /thor_heyerdahl.html (974 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kon-tiki was the name given to a raft by norwegian explorer and writer thor heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition....
		Papyrus is an early form of paper made from the pith of the papyrus plant, cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that grows to 5 meters (15 ft) in height...
		Jakten på odin (norwegian: the search for odin) is the project title of thor heyerdahls last series of anthropological excavations, which took place...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thor_heyerdahl.htm (2260 words)

	BBC News \| TALKING POINT \| Thor Heyerdahl: Your tributes
		Thor Heyerdayl was an original and lateral thinker, prepared at all times to challenge academic dogma and always ready to back-up his own theories with dynamic and visionary field research.
		Thor will be remembered by those who cherished his adventurous soul as a truly good man. Like many great explorers before him, he will wear the turning earth as his final epitaph while he makes his last great voyage of discovery towards eternal sleep.
		Thor Heyerdahl was a genius at thinking out-of-the-box, and brilliant at communicating it to his readers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/1938939.stm (2930 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Meanwhile, Heyerdahl decides that the presence of sweet potatoes and a god named "Tiki" means that the prevailing wisdom, that these isles were settled by Australonesian peoples from the east, may be wrong.
		Heyerdahl was a romantic; in his fevered imagining, the effort plus the original materials made his feats into evidence.
		Heyerdahl considered himself a scientist who dealt empirically with evidence, and he did step back from his claims about Easter Island when genetic tests showed him to be wrong.
	www.goodbyemag.com /apr02/heyerdahl.html (1271 words)

	Thor (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thor is also used as a man's name, such as that of explorer Thor Heyerdahl
		Thor Brewery - a brewery in Randers, Denmark
		Thor - a German heavy mortar 610mm, used in World War II German Raider Thor - a German surface raider in World War II Thor - a chess engine
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thor_(disambiguation) (234 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 in Larvik, Norway–April 18, 2002 in, Italy) was (originally) a Norwegian marine biologist with a great interest in anthropology, who became famous for his Kon-Tiki Expedition in which he sailed by raft 4,300 miles from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
		On May 17, 1970 Heyerdahl set sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat to sail across the Atlantic Ocean to Central America.
		In 1991 he studied the pyramids of Güímar on Teneriffe and discovered that they cannot be random stone heaps, but actual pyramids.
	www.antioch.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Thor_Heyerdahl (690 words)

	8.2 Scandinavian Ancestry: Tracing Roots to Azerbaijan - Thor Heyerdahl
		Thor Heyerdahl with Peruvian children who still construct traditional boats made of reeds, the principle material that enabled early migrations on trans-oceanic voyages.
		Heyerdahl's route that he made with a balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 to prove that early transoceanic migrations were possible.
		Thor Heyerdahl in 1994 at the Gobustan caves in Azerbaijan.
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/82_folder/82_articles/82_heyerdahl.html (3504 words)

	Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Majid's Pages- Thor Heyerdahl and the Maldives
		Since Heyerdahl published his 'Maldive Mystery', many books, articles and guides about the Maldives mention sun-worship, pyramids, waves of immigrants, attacks by lion-people and other such fallacies in their historical outline of the Maldive archipelago.
		This misuse is tantamount to abuse, for Heyerdahl was not an honest archaeologist and one sure outcome of his meddling is that he has made the job more difficult for future researchers that will visit the places where he has left his deep traces.
		Another of Heyerdahl’s blunders concerns his insistence that large groups of people bringing with them the sun-worship had travelled the seas of the world in innumerable rafts or crude boats, settling here and there and building up new societies that built pyramids and decorated them with sun-symbols.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /maldives_romero_heyerdahl.shtml (1297 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thor Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, Norway on October 6, 1914.
		Heyerdahl noticed that the winds and currents came from east to west, so the people would have had to travel from South America.
		Heyerdahl wanted to establish the possibility that ancient Sumerians might have used reed boats to spread their culture.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/heyerdahl_thor.html (468 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl Dead At Age 87 - CBS News
		Heyerdahl was a frequent visitor to Norway, where the Kon-Tiki museum in Oslo maintained an apartment for his use.
		Heyerdahl was born Oct. 6, 1914, in the southern Norwegian town of Larvik.
		Heyerdahl is succeeded by his third wife Jaqueline, four of his five children, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/04/18/print/main506633.shtml (789 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl in Azerbaijan: KON-TIKI MAN by Betty Blair
		Evidence for this comes from Heyerdahl's expeditions which all were based on authentic boat designs, either found on petroglyphs, etched or painted on ancient walls, burial crypts, ancient seals, or from the memories of people who still use such craft.
		Heyerdahl admits that a single reed of papyrus seems so fragile that you could hardly dare think about entrusting it with your life on a violent ocean.
		In the meantime, Heyerdahl has initiated a purely humanitarian development project in the neighboring town of Tucume, named "Tucume Vivo" in honor of the local village people who are descended from the former pyramid builders.
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/31_folder/31_articles/31_thorheyerdahl.html (1734 words)

	John J. Miller on Thor Heyerdahl on National Review Online
		Thor Heyerdahl, R.I.P. he May issue of Vanity Fair features a gallery of photos on "10 of the greatest living explorers" — people like Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest, and Robert Ballard, the deep-sea detective who discovered the location of the Titanic.
		Indeed, Heyerdahl's contribution is often regarded as an unhelpful stunt that miseducated the public.
		Heyerdahl may have gone to his grave believing in a migration that never happened, but he nevertheless provided a useful and inspiring reminder that prehistoric people were much more clever and inventive than we moderns give them credit for being.
	www.nationalreview.com /miller/miller041902.asp (558 words)

	News: Thor Heyerdahl - An Inspiration for All Explorers (January 7, 2003)
		Thor Heyerdahl, an explorer in every sense of the word, died last year at the age of 87.
		Thor took the opportunity to study the animals and plants found on the islands.
		Thor Heyerdahl was an explorer but he wasn't the last.
	liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /news/2003/news-thor.asp?list27822-133 (1002 words)

	Adventurer Thor Heyerdahl Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heyerdahl said his life was dominated by three challenges: to live in harmony with nature and improve it, to make his mark on the scientific community, and to build on his conception of the basic unity of mankind.
		Heyerdahl developed a theory: Polynesia was not first settled by sailors from Indonesia, but by South American Indians crossing the oceans on primitive craft, taking the prevailing winds and currents near the Equator.
		One of the papyrus boats Thor Heyerdahl used to test his theory that the longer papyrus is in saltwater the harder it gets.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/04/0419_020419_wirethor.html (639 words)

	THE KONTIKI RAFT EXPEDITION SOUTH AMERICA TO POLYNESIA AND THOR HEYERDAHL \| GREAT EXPLORERS RAFTS AND RAFTING.
		Thor Heyerdahl was so convinced that the Polynesian Islands were settled by people from Peru, South America, that he needed to prove his theory.
		Thor Heyerdahl has always been dedicated attempting to prove his theories on contacts of prehistoric societies with the aid of traditional boats types.
		Thor Heyerdahl was an extraordinary and complex person in many ways, both controversial and humble at the same time.
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/kontiki.htm (3918 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl
		Below is found information regarding the research and writings of Thor Heyerdahl including a bibliography of scientific and popular works.
		Heyerdahl, Thor, and Arne Skjolsvold 1956 Archaeological Evidence of Pre-Spanish Visits to the Galapagos Islands.
		Dreyers Forlag Oslo Heyerdahl, Thor, and Edwin N. Ferdon, Jr., editors 1962 Reports of the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island and the East Pacific, vol.
	www.plu.edu /~ryandp/thor.html (1111 words)

	Thor Heyerdahl
		But Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) had an incredible love for adventure, a love which made him a celebrated person around the world.
		But Heyerdahl's legacy is not so much his science, as his stubborn and never-ending urge to explore the unknown, something he kept doing until his death.
		Thor Heyerdahl was a great man, and the Earth is a lesser place after his death.
	www.hypography.com /topics/heyerdahl.cfm (792 words)

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