Subject
Eastern Polynesia, Archaeology, Chronology, Radiocarbon dating, Settlement history, Linguistics, Polynesian migration, Sweet potato diffusion, Pacific exploration, Cultural interactions, Thor Heyerdahl, South American connections, Historiography

Domains
Archéologie, Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines

Description

Heyerdahl's Peruvians must have availed themselves of that classical device of science fiction, the time machine, for they showed up off Easter Island in A.D. 380, led by a post-A.D. 750 lncan god-hero, with an A.D. 750 Tiahuanaco material culture featuring A.D. 750 lncan walls, and not one thing characteristic of the Tiahuanaco period in Peru and Bolivia. This is equivalent to saying that America was discovered in the last days of the Roman Empire by King Henry the Eighth, who brought the Ford Falcon to the benighted aborigines - Robert Suggs (1960a:224)

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Language
English (en-GB)

Creators
Spriggs Matthew

Contributors

Sources
In: I. H. (Ed.), Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki in New Light (Vol. 14, pp. 169-180). The Thor Heyerdahl Institute

Relation
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/publications/you-will-never-know-the-why-of-a-regions-history-if-you-havent-pi

Coverage
Polynesia, Pacific

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