Interesting. Perhaps these are the people that the Mayans and Easter Island natives encountered that had red hair and beards. If so, they were also the original polynesians. I wonder why Thor Heyerdahl (as far as I know) didn’t speculate on they being that group of people.
Read this thread:
Pre-Inca Ruins Emerging From Peru's Cloud Forests (Chapapoyas)
"The Chachapoya, distinguished by fair skin and great height, lived primarily on ridges and mountaintops in circular stone houses."
possibly becasue they are in the Atlantic not Pacific Oceans?
Hmmmm?