Името на Тур Хейердал се свързва основно с това, че доказва в няколко различни експедиции, пътувайки с възстановки на древни плавателни съдове (за които дотогава се е смятало, че не могат да издържат презокеански пътешествия - папирусова лодка, сал от балсово дърво), че в древността се е плавало и е имало много чести цивилизационни "дифузии", примесвания, контакти между различните краища на света. Обръщал е особено внимание на пирамидите по различните части на света (а тях ги има на почти всеки континент) и е доказвал сходствата им, интересни са наблюденията му и върху каменните статуи на Великденския Остров (общо няколкостотин, всяка по няколко, понякога десетки, тона:bigeyes:), чиято история е пълна с кръвопролития и преломи. Особен с това, че е силно изолиран от света, Великденският остров е видял както процъфтяваща природа и високоразвита цивилизация ("дългоухите", изобразени на статуите), така и последващи периоди на човекоядство и непрестанни войни, унищожаване на почти целите флора и фауна (обезлесяването е било 100%:bigeyes:) и хората дори са се връщали да живеят обратно в пещери и дупки, за да оцеляват, когато са останали едва няколкостотин...
ето и цитат от Уикипедия:
[size=67]Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical white people in Peru. The original name for Virakocha was Kon-Tiki or Illa-Tiki, which means Sun-Tiki or Fire-Tiki. Kon-Tiki was high priest and sun-king of these legendary "white men" who left enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The legend continues with the mysterious bearded white men being attacked by a chief named Cari who came from the Coquimbo Valley. They had a battle on an island in Lake Titicaca, and the fair race was massacred. However, Kon-Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived on the Pacific coast. The legend ends with Kon-Tiki and his companions disappearing westward out to sea.
When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers. The Incas described these "white gods" as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the "morning of time" and taught the Incas' primitive forefathers architecture as well as manners and customs. They were unlike other Native Americans in that they had "white skins and long beards" and were taller than the Incas. The Incas said that the "white gods" had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled westward across the Pacific. After they had left, the Incas themselves took over power in the country.
Heyerdahl said that when the Europeans first came to the Pacific islands, they were astonished that they found some of the natives to have relatively light skins and beards. There were whole families that had pale skin, hair varying in color from reddish to blonde, and almost Semitic, hook-nosed faces. In contrast, most of the Polynesians had golden-brown skin, raven-black hair, and rather flat noses. Heyerdahl claimed that when Roggeveen first discovered [b]Easter Island [/b]in 1722, he supposedly noticed that many of the natives were white-skinned. Heyerdahl claimed that these people could count their ancestors who were "white-skinned" right back to the time of Tiki and Hotu Matua, when they first came sailing across the sea "from a mountainous land in the east which was scorched by the sun." The ethnographic evidence for these claims is outlined in Heyerdahl's book Aku Aku: The Secret of Easter Island.[/size]
разбира се, книгата казва много повече...
повече за Тур Хейердал :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl
за Великденския остров :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island
за статуите :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai