Word: kon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skipper of the "Miru" challenged the "Kon-Tiki" theory last night...
...talk at Dunster House Thomas R. A. Davis made it clear that his own voyage across the Pacific did not invalidate "Kon-Tiki" as an anthropological expedition. He said he formed his opinion from his knowledge of the South Pacific waters and the Polynesian tribes...
Davis, the Cook Islands' chief surgeon who sailed 10,000 miles to attend the School of Public Health, said "Kon-Tiki" skipper Thor Heyerdahl considered most of the cultural similarities between the Peruvians and the Polynesians when he said the South Americans settled in Polynesia, but he neglected to consider the differences in the social structures and religions of the two groups...
...order to test the validity of the Kon-Tiki theory, Davis left Wellington, New Zealand, last June in a 48-foot ketch, with a crew of two besides his wife and two children. The five month trip carried the group through the wild South Pacific winter and the worst gale to hit New Zealand waters in the last 30 years, reaching here December...
...trans-Pacific voyage has provided anthropologists with a counter-thesis to the Kon-Tiki theory. By venturing from Peru to the Polynesian Islands by a powerless raft, the Kon-Tiki group attempted to prove that the Polynesians are descendants of the Peruvians. Davis maintains the contrary. He says that there are similarities in culture, but contends that a Polynesian Chief sailed to Peru, perhaps over the same route used by Davis. The chief and his associates traveled along the Peruvian coast, picking up the culture, and transplanted it in Polynesia. This thesis is in almost direct contradiction to the much...