Undaunted, Heyerdahl continued his research, and in 1952 headed an archaeological expedition to the Galapagos Islands, 605 miles west of Ecuador. Noted anthropologist Robert Carl Suggs, Ph.D., from Boise who died just last April said, “Like most such theories, it makes exciting light reading, but as an example of scientific method it fares quite poorly.”
He believed the success of Kon-Tiki proved that assumption, though the academics didn’t buy it. Heyerdahl would spend most of his life defending and proving his belief that ancient peoples had the ability to travel great distances by sea, using the primitive technology of those times. But his critics called it just a hypothesis, and that his “evidence” was shallow. Heyerdahl called his belief a theory - supported by evidence. Norwegian anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl was showered with praise and honors after successfully sailing his primitive balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki from Peru to French Polynesia in 1947, giving evidence that ancestors of today’s Polynesians could have come from South America - but his critics were quick to pounce.
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