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Heyerdahl (Norwegian) [ˈhɛiərdaːl] n
(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 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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