David’s Weapon of Mass Destruction: 'The Reception of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki Theory’'

From the late 1930s to his death in 2002, Norwegian adventurer and amateur ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl struggled to find academic acceptance for his Pacific Islands settlement theory. He even went as far as using the biblical story of David and Goliath as a metaphor for his struggle against academia....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Victor Melander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2019-10-01
Series:Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Online Access:https://www.archaeologybulletin.org/articles/612