Kon Tiki Redux-Old Theories Still Afloat

[marduk]

i thought very greek but without the plate smashing

[Minimalist]

I was singing Hava Nagila in the background at the beginning.

[Minimalist]

Well...well.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1726137.htm

"What these pieces of archaeological research show is that the more isolated islands were reached very late in the history of the settlement of the Pacific, indicating that probably the seafaring technology was not as good as we once thought," Anderson says.

"The Polynesians were once regarded as almost superhuman seafarers who could go anywhere that they wanted. But now it doesn't look like that at all.

[Minimalist]

On History International there is a special on Nan Madol.

They duly report the island myth that the rocks flew through the air...and barely disguised their disgust at native superstition.

Then, they lashed two 800 pound basalt stones to large poles, built a bamboo raft, and were prepared to show how they could move the stones the 20 miles.

The two rocks, 1,600 pounds plus their lifting poles (figure a ton, total) preceded to sink the raft.

Then, they said, well if we can't float a mere 1,600 pounds how did they float the enormous stones used in the monument.

[Beagle]

http://www.ferco.org/ferco_pyramids.html

Archaeologists and authorities scoffed when a local newspaper published an article claiming to have discovered mysterious step-pyramids on the island of Tenerife. Just more agricultural stone terraces they said, such as are common throughout the Canaries.

But Thor Heyerdahl thought differently. Dr. Heyerdahl, who has done extensive research on the pyramids of Tucume in Peru, was intrigued by photos of the site, and on visiting the valley of Guimar to see for himself, he was no longer in any doubt. These were neither terraces nor random piles of stone cleared by the Spaniards, as some had tried to explain them away. They were painstakingly built step-pyramids, constructed according to similar principles as those of Mexico, Peru, and ancient Mesopotamia

Thor Heyerdahl spent his final days on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. It was there that he gained widespread acceptance of the pyramids as being genuine.

[Guest]

Google search Maui's Tanawa, it was an ancient navigational device in the Pacific region, probably utilized in like manner as the "Celtic Cross."

[Beagle]

http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf122/sf122p02.htm

Could Heyerdahl be right when he claims there were age-old cultural links between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mexico, the Canaries, and even the Pacific Islands?

Another article on the Pyramids of Tenerife. Interesting. Should be taken with a grain of salt.

[Minimalist]

This looks like it would be a fairly inefficient "agricultural terrace."



Check out the other photos.

http://www.piramidesdeguimar.net/ingles/pagina.htm

[Guest]

The tiered pyramid is a common motif of ancient structures throughout the world, the old "stairway to heaven," and the multi-tiered Great Pyramid's dimensions embody the apparent movement of the heavens, these were man-made "holy" mountains, to worship the sun god and the saga of time, symbolized in the ancients' view of the constellations as they relate to the sun.