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THOR HEYERDAHL… Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography. DEFINE: ethnographer, zoology,

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1 THOR HEYERDAHL… Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography. DEFINE: ethnographer, zoology, botany, and geography…

2 Thor Heyerdahl has been considered a/an…
Ethnographer: the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures Zoologist: the scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals Botanist: the scientific study of plants, including their physiology, structure, genetics, ecology, distribution, classification, and economic importance

3 THOR in images…

4 Folks from Egypt settled …

5 Maps of Thor’s adventures…

6 Thor’s Heyerdahl’s Vessels.
Ra I

7 Ra2… NEVER GIVE UP…

8 Kon Tiki Thor Heyerdahl’s next adventure…
… Thor wanted to prove that it was possible for the people of Peru to use their existing technology to cross the ocean and settle Polynesian islands… at the time this was considered a radical idea

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