Once upon a time, there was a Norwegian adventurer and would-be anthropologist who noted some strange parallels between the language and culture of various Polynesian islands and certain languages and cultures on the coast of South America. Thor Heyerdahl came up with a crazy theory: maybe the Polynesian islands were settled, not from Asia, but from the Americas!        There were many reasons people argued against this idea, although there were certain appealing elements of the theory. However, from the point of view of [ Continue reading... ]