Genovés, Santiago

Santiago Genovés Tarazaga (1923-2013) was a Spanish anthropologist with a great interest in pre-Columbian Mexico. He was part of the Ra I and Ra II expeditions led by Thor Heyerdahl which crossed the Atlantic in a reed boat on the second attempt. He has written many books and essays on scientific subjects, as well as several papers of literary criticism. But he is probably best known for a joint paper with Romeo Hristov^(b)(c) published in 2000 in Ancient Mesoamerica^(a)  in which they controversially identified a terracotta figurine, discovered in 1933, in Mexico as clearly Roman adding to the ever growing body of evidence for probable pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic contacts. The existence of such early oceanic travel is fundamental to a number of Atlantis related theories, particularly those that promote Egypt as a colony of a  MesoAmerican Atlantis, or where a mid-Atlantic Atlantis is claimed to have provided a stepping-stone between the Old and New Worlds.

^(a) http://econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/calix.htm

^(b) Romeo Hristov (unm.edu)

^(c) https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/romeos-head-6407887  {7705} share