Hey·er·dahl (h   r-däl , h -), Thor 1914-2002. Norwegian ethnologist and explorer who led the Kon Tiki expedition (1947) on a raft across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Tuamotu to demonstrate that Polynesians may be of South American origin. In 1970 he crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco to Barbados in a papyrus boat to show that ancient Egyptians might have sailed to America. |
Heyerdahl (Norwegian) [ˈhɛiərdaːl]
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(Biographies / Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-2002) M, Norwegian, SOCIAL SCIENCE: anthropologist) Thor (tɔː). 1914-2002, Norwegian anthropologist. In 1947 he demonstrated that the Polynesians could originally have been migrants from South America, by sailing from Peru to the Pacific Islands of Tuamotu in the Kon-Tiki, a raft made of balsa wood. DNA testing in the late 1990s indicated that such a migration did not actually take place
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| Noun | 1. | Heyerdahl - Norwegian anthropologist noted for his studies of cultural diffusion (1914-2002) |
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