'Future studies could validate more of Thor Heyerdahl's hypotheses on the Pacific'

India, July 14 -- Down To Earth speaks toReidar Solsvik, the curator of the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway about a recent study in 'Nature' about indigenous Americans in the Pacific

The journal Nature recently published a study which analysed genetic material to conclude that indigenous Americans and Polynesians had made contact prior to the arrival of the Europeans in the Pacific. In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl had famously voyaged from Peru in South America to the Tuamotu islands in the Pacific on a raft made of balsa wood called the Kon-Tiki to prove that ancient South Americans had settled in Polynesia. Down To Earth spoke to Reidar Solsvik, the curator of the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway and asked him whether the study...