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Plant Evidence for Contacts with America before Columbus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thor Heyerdahl
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Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 150 , June 1964 , pp. 120 - 133
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1964 

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Dr Thor Heyerdahl is well known not only for the fact that he organized and led the Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, the Archaeological Expedition to Galapagos in 1953, and the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island and the East Pacific in 1955–6, but also for his researches in the last twenty-five years in the Marquesas Islands, among the Coastal Indians of British Columbia, in Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Here he examines afresh the plant evidence for contacts with America in pre-Columbian times.

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