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the_historian
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 | | 25 Apr 2008 09:00 PM | | I've been following the work of Dr Bryony Coles of the Wetland Archaeology Research Project at Exeter University. She has done a lot of research into the former north European plain, which became inundated after the last Ice Age and now forms the bed of the North Sea.
Dr Coles has produced bathymetry data which allows a fairly accurate reconstruction of the land surfaces, river valleys, hills etc of what she has called 'Doggerland' (after the Dogger Bank ).
This land became inundated around 7000 years ago, but my query is this; could a folk memory of this event have been perpetuated long enough to find it's way to Plato, who embellished it as Atlantis? I'm not suggesting for one minute that the remains of a great civilisation lies under the North Sea, but could this theory of mine be plausible? What does anyone ele think?
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| | Lexdenbear
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| | 25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM | | | The area that we now call the north sea was low level land, slight undulations, marsh and bog. There was a major river that ran from north to south, tributaries of which turned into the Great Ouse, Thames, Rheine, etc. The inundation occurred 9600 BC at the end of the Younger Dryas period, a mini-reglaciation of the celtic shelf that extended as far south as modern Manchester, and lasted for around 3000 years. I believe that Atlantis seekers are ignoring the obvious. Taking into account the latitude of inhospitable ice, it leaves a habitable rectangular land mass (southern England) of approximately 340 miles by 230 miles, which when converted equals 3000 x 2000 ancient Greek stadia. Plato never wrote that this fertile plain was the whole of the Atlantis, he wrote that the area lay to the south and was sheltered from the north. - Alan | | | |
| the_historian
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| | 25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM | | | Hi Alan,
Welcome to the forums. Wonder if this idea would actually cut any ice with Atlantis buffs?
Regards,Gordon
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| Lexdenbear
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| | 25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM | | | Hi Gordon, thanks for the welcome. Sad to say that this theory would not cut much ice... mainly because of the influence of 20th century media. People are still looking for a sunken continent, although Plato only said that it was "lost" - which is wide open to interpretation. I am never quite sure how much information to impart on the web, due to the fact that I am slowly (very slowly) writing a book, and I am so possessive of my research. Britain.. Atlantis? Without a doubt, and there is so much more. However, trying to get a dialogue going with academia is like trying to make turkeys sing Christmas carols.... the research makes them decidedly nervous. - Alan | | | |
| fugue
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| | 25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM | | | I think the idea is possible but there is nothing in it to make me think of that location in particular. Plato suggested a place with an excelant warm climate and that does not sound to me like the the norther plains. There are lots of large land masses that were inundated at the end of the last ice age. | | | |
| C.S.I.
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| | 25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM | | This may be of interest gentlemen.
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Atlantis and Tartessus. Norway Scientific Institutions recognize paleographical hypothesis of Spanish investigator.
The National Library and the The Norwegian Institute of Palaeography and Historical Philology (PHI), assigned to the Academy of Sciences and Lettering and to the University of Oslo, Norway, have decided to consider the hypothesis of a Cuban investigator of Spanish origin on an epigraphical interpretation of one of the most ancient inscriptions of the world.
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Perhaps the most interesting of the fact is that not only has been accepted the epigraphical identification of the signs of writing realized by the Hispanic specialist as the most probable but also his peculiar grammatical and semantic interpretation ha s been included - without any fear -, that is to say, the possible reading and meaning that Díaz-Montexano proposes and that points directly at two names of the antiquity which alone mention provokes all kinds of reactions found between the specialists: Tartessos and the Atlantis.
http://www.antiquos.com/georgeos/La-Atlantida-Instituciones-cientificas-reconocen-hipotesis-paleografica-de-investigador-hispano-en.html
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| C.S.I.
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| | 25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM | | | My present views on Atlantis hold that if it existed,it's concentric layout as anciently described is compatible with a modified/terraformed "Caldera".
Building a city on an assumed dormant volcanoe parallels the epo/mythic description.I view it as a City/State,not a "Lost Continent"
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