Click to Subscribe
‘Legacy’
Lost Civilizations of Peru and Polynesia
© 2017 James LaFond
MAR/2/17
For decades Thor Hyerdahl’s Rah and KonTiki Expeditions were decried by anthropologists as willful cultural appropriation, in the white man was attempting to prove the diffusion of knowledge through heroic means, a long range sea voyage into the unknown. But now it is no such thing if descendents of Polynesian mariners wish to engage in experimental archeology.
It has long been a no-brainer that the yam diffused from Micronesia to South America, yet this documentary still manages to verify ancient oral history and give the viewer a glimpse of one of the world’s most successful Stone Age technologies. The mixed race navigator commanding this voyage had the methods from one of the last of these pacific mariners. I recall, decades ago, seeing a documentary on this very subject in which the old navigator explained through the translator that he could sense the presence of distant and unseen islands in his testicles—that those organs acted as a kind of sonar sensor. One imagines that a jock strap would have ruined his compass.
Polynesian sailors were sought after around the world throughout the 1800s by sea captains of merchants, expeditionary ships and whaling ships, with one such man joining a fur trading expedition to the Rockies and giving his name to the Owyhee desert.
The second video on the Inca city of Machu Picchu is well done and also lacks some depth. But the photography and graphics are pleasing. The conclusion of the two films taken together is that there was obviously Polynesian contact with South America. Also, outside of this, I have read some genetic evidence suggesting that earlier contact from the Pacific with South America was made by more primitive seafarers.
Lost Civilizations of the Pacific
Machu Picchu
He: Gilgamesh: Into the Face of Time
Besides Carrying a .45
the man cave
The Vile Root: Invalidation
eBook
honor among men
eBook
fiction anthology one
eBook
by the wine dark sea
eBook
z-pill forever
eBook
when you're food
eBook
advent america
eBook
winter of a fighting life
eBook
song of the secret gardener
eBook
ranger?
eBook
the greatest boxer
eBook
the sunset saga complete
eBook
taboo you
eBook
cracker-boy
eBook
within leviathan’s craw
eBook
america the brutal
eBook
the lesser angels of our nature
eBook
logic of force
eBook
orphan nation
eBook
the combat space
eBook
hate
eBook
book of nightmares
eBook
fanatic
eBook
on combat
eBook
the first boxers
eBook
solo boxing
eBook
songs of aryas
eBook
under the god of things
eBook
fate
eBook
menthol rampage
eBook
sons of aryas
eBook
all-power-fighting
eBook
the gods of boxing
eBook
triumph
eBook
masculine axis
eBook
sorcerer!
eBook
beasts of aryas
eBook
uncle satan
eBook
on the overton railroad
eBook
broken dance
eBook
into leviathan’s maw
eBook
let the world fend for itself
eBook
blue eyed daughter of zeus
eBook
dark, distant futures
eBook
time & cosmos
eBook
logic of steel
eBook
your trojan whorse
eBook
predation
eBook
the greatest lie ever sold
eBook
wife—
eBook
son of a lesser god
eBook
the year the world took the z-pill
eBook
barbarism versus civilization
eBook
the fighting edge
eBook
thriving in bad places
eBook
night city
PR     Mar 3, 2017

Eddie Aikau died while training as a traditional Polynesian navigator on a cruise retracing Polynesian sea routes. There's a surf contest in his honor:

eddieaikaufoundation.org/eddie.htm
  Add a new comment below:
Name
Email
Message