[blam]

GGG Ping.

[BfloGuy]

Kon-Tiki

[Sherman Logan]

Interesting, although there are some serious anomalies if the two groups of civilizations were in constant contact.

For instance, while corn native to Mexico made it to Peru, I don’t believe potatoes, native to Peru, made it to Mexico.

Also, writing was common in Mexico and unknown in Peru.

In many other ways the two civilizations are as different from each other as any two on earth.

[edcoil]

The history channel had a special on big ships that were as big as a football field 1,000’s of years ago.

[sionnsar]

and the arrangement of centerboards. These boards were used in place of a keel to prevent the craft from being blown to the side, and also provided a steering mechanism by selectively raising and lowering different boards from among two rows of them arranged on each side of the craft.

Who writes this tripe?

[Michael.SF.]

Wonder where they could have gotten this idea?

[SunkenCiv]

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[bill1952]

Did somebody in that faculty read the Kon Tiki when they were stoned in the library and then thought that it was a very obscure thesis so they repeated it as some new and startling discovery?

How do they trot this crap out, anyway?
Are they going to float the idea that the Earth is not the center of the Solar System next?

[Fresh Wind]

So, once again, modern elitists have discovered that people thousands of years ago were actually intelligent and had a talent for engineering.

[TexanToTheCore]

Sailors sail, archaeologists don’t. End of story.

[Moonman62]

Equatorial waters are fairly calm and storm free, so rafts may have worked.

[mad_as_he$$]

What a bunch of revisionist c$ap. Everybody knows the ancients moved stuff around through the Stargate.

[Ptarmigan]

Makes sense to me. Dia de la Muerte rituals in Mexico are very similar to what they do in Korea when it comes. I have read that Mexican Indians encountered Asians.

The Mayans spoke of two distinct culture heros, Itzamna and Kukulcan (Kukul Khan), who arrived at different times, Itzamna came from the East (Mediterranean) and invented the Mayan script, he also devised their calender.

The Kukulcan, less in number, came later from the West (possibly from China). Both culture heros were bearded but the Kukulcan had shaved heads.

Kukulcan is supposed to have founded the cities of Mayapan and Chichen Itza. He taught the people to refrain from using arms, even for hunting, and under his rule, the nation enjoyed peace, prosperity and abundant harvests.

This would explain the significant Chinese influence in architecture and technology of the Mayans. With a name like Kukul Khan, how could he not be Asian.

http://www.users.on.net/~mkfenn/page4.htm

[Yollopoliuhqui]

This is a total rip off of Thor Heyerdahl’s previous research into movable dagger boards on large Peruvian balsa rafts after he made his Kon Tiki voyage. Heyerdahl is still considered a heretic and pariah in academia and any reference to his research or “diffusionism” (cross-cultural interaction and influence in the ancient world) in general can get you fired and blacklisted from peer review journals.