Vicente Pistilli Explained

Vicente Pistilli Statunato (February 27, 1933 - December 7, 2013) was a Paraguayan academic who was a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción.[1]

Trained as a mathematician and engineer, Pistilli had a long fascination with the Pre-Columbian history of Paraguay. His book Vikings in Paraguay made a controversial historical case for early Nordic settlement in the country which some have alleged guided the Alfredo Stroessner government's discriminatory policies against the Aché.[2] [3]

Pistilli married Marta Simiano and had three sons.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Servicios Fúnebres. abc.com.py. Diario ABC Color. April 2, 2017.
  2. Holton. Graham. Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki Theory and the Denial of the Indigenous Past. Anthropological Forum. 2004. 14. 2.
  3. Book: Stone. Peter. The Excluded Past: Archaeology in Education. 2003. Routledge. 1317799879.