Download or read book Archaeological Evidence of Pre-Spanish Visits to the Galápagos Islands written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reprint of an archaeological report by, among others, the great Norwegian archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl, that was originally published in 1956 in American Antiquity. It deals with material, mostly potsherds, that was found during the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to the Galápagos Islands in 1953, and which may be correlated with the Costal Tiahuanaco (Tomaval), Chimu (La Plata), and Inca (Estero) periods of the Peruvian coastal sequence. A fascinating account of an expedition that changed the face of New World archaeology, this new edition includes Spanish translations of the principal sections of the book.