{"id":19040,"date":"2012-12-26T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T11:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=19040"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:48:01","slug":"genoves-santiago-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/genoves-santiago-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Genov\u00e9s, Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Santiago<\/strong><strong> Genov\u00e9s Tarazaga\u00a0(1923-2013) <\/strong>was a Spanish anthropologist with a great interest in pre-Columbian Mexico. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/genoves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-31219\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/genoves-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"genoves\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/genoves-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/genoves.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>He was part of the Ra I and Ra II expeditions led by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/heyerdahl-thor\/\">Thor Heyerdahl <\/a>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 a number of papers of literary criticism. But he is probably best known for a joint paper with Romeo Hristov<sup>(b)(c)<\/sup>\u00a0published in 2000 in <em>Ancient Mesoamerica<\/em><sup>(a)<\/sup> \u00a0in which they 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\u00a0 MesoAmerican Atlantis, or where a mid-Atlantic Atlantis is claimed to have provided a stepping-stone between the Old and New Worlds.<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/econ.ohio-state.edu\/jhm\/arch\/calix.htm\">http:\/\/econ.ohio-state.edu\/jhm\/arch\/calix.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unm.edu\/~rhristov\/\">Romeo Hristov (unm.edu)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/news\/romeos-head-6407887\">https:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/news\/romeos-head-6407887<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> {7705} share<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Genov\u00e9s Tarazaga\u00a0(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 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,1719,1718,930],"class_list":["post-19040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mexico","tag-romeo-hristov","tag-santiago-genoves","tag-thor-heyerdahl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19040"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66496,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19040\/revisions\/66496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}