Posted on 11/21/2001 11:08:00 AM PST by callisto
but again, this would having nothing to do with Atlantis, which had met its final destiny over 7,000 years before Joshua's time...
I still recall a book on Atlantis which (among the dozen or so avenues of inquiry) showed the remarkable similarity of common word roots among the existing cultures on all land masses ringing the Atlantic in early history. Just that one effort, with the amazing number of identical (or nearly so) words/meanings, was enough to convince me that, not only had there been extensive interrelations among all these peoples, but that they all likely had a common origin - the diaspora of Atlantean refugees.
Landscape Analysis, Stratigraphical And Geochemical Investigations Of Playa And Alluvial Fan Sediments In Tunisia And Raised Bog Deposits In Sweden: A Possible Correlation Between Extreme Climate Events And Cosmic Activity During The Late Holocene
Lars G. Franzén1 and Thomas B. Larsson2
1 Physical Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Göteborg,
SE-413 81 Göteborg, Sweden, E-mail: lars@gvc.gu.se 2 Department of Archeology, University of Umea, SE-901 87 Umea, Sweden
Geomorphological signatures, and plays and alluvial fan deposits, all point at a severe flooding catastrophe in central Tunisia c. 1000 B.C.
Precipitation must have exceeded 10,000 mm in a very short period. Human activity during this period concentrated around wells, with an increased need of heating as indicated by the very frequent occurrence of unusually large fireplaces with heating stones imbedded in charcoal (Larsson and Franzen, in press).
The sediments deposited indicate severe ground frost in an initial phase, i.e. large balls of loose dune sand, imbedded in the lower part of the stratigraphies, objects which could only have been transported in a frozen form.
In spite of being found in a 5 m thick sediment sequence the fire places have the same apparent age according to 14 C-datings, indicating an extreme rate of sedimentation.
The playa investigated, Chott Nejla, is normally dried out However, after heavy floods, it is a fresh water lake, with a maximum depth of 15 m, if filled up to the thresholds. At the natural playa outlet during pluvial periods, from an archaeological point of view, a very rich site was found with signs of a perhaps continuous settlement from 9000 B.C. to Roman times, uncommon for the Capisien culture (Balout, 1955; Larsson and Franzen, in press).
The sediment sequence at the playa centre shows that the most abrupt transition from aridity to very humid conditions at 1000 B.C., was followed by a very long lake stage.
The lower lake stage sediments of this event contain glassy spherules (5-100 gm dia) with a very varying composition, from pure Fe-types to types with the same basic composition as those found in the K/T-transition (e.g. Koeberl and Sigurdsson, 1992).
Other outstanding wet periods found in the Tunisian material are 900-1000 A.D. and 1600-1700 A.D. In southern Sweden, several raised bog deposits have been investigated for their peat ash composition.
Raised bogs, which receive all nutrients from the atmosphere, is an ideal archive of atmospheric fallout, the rate of peat accumulation being rather constant and the peat being easily dated with 14 C. The investigation indicate strongly increased atmospheric circulation in rhythmically appearing periods with high peaks centred around e.g. c.2200 B.C., 1000 B.C., 400 B.C., 200 A.D., 1000 A.D. and 1600 A.D.
Harmonic analysis points at a periodicity of 570 years or 1140 years. Like in the playa deposits glassy spherules were found, having the same basic composition as the Tunisian material. In conclusion, both playa and alluvial fan deposits in Tunisia, and peat in Sweden points at a very turbulent Holocene with several sudden and dramatic climate event;, with unknown origin and extent The cultural traces indicate periods of extremely cold and humid conditions.
The spherules found could be of volcanic origin but they are not associated with any known major volcanism, and their heterogeneous composition points at other formation mechanisms e.g. cometary impacts in ocean shelf sediments.
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A conference at Fitzwilliam College. Cambridge. 11th-13th July 1997
Organised by The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/cambconf.htm
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I hope they find Atlantis, but I suspect something else. There is a plan to find the extraterrestrial origins of life on earth --a hypothesis to be tested-- by drilling down to depths that would have been the surface a billion years ago. Most all of that is deeply buried so the present surface is relatively fresh all the time. Micrometeorite dust is still coming in at a rate that would bury everything a foot deep every million years, or something like that. I think they will eventually find completely lost cities and civilizations, very old and scattered all over the planet. I don't know how old they might be, but 50,000 years is not out of the question. Maybe more. I also suspect that technology 6000 years ago was more advanced than it was 1000 years ago. The first books I checked out of the library when I was old enough to go into the adult stacks were Velikovsky's, so I have probably been hopelessly spoiled as far as archaeology is concerned. I have seen the ruins at North Salem personally, they are very much out of place both in location and time, just like Stonehenge and the dolmens. We know people were sailing all over the planet 40,000 years ago, don't we?
An Atlantean Empire? Not likely.
Atlantis? Not likely.
Many prehistoric civilizations? Most likely.
Atlantis? Not likely.
If you believe in numerous 'near-extinction' events, as I do (most recently at 540AD, The Dark Ages), it is amazing that any information from our distant past makes it through that 'filter(s).' Any information that survives through these events at all is amazing and likely to be very sketchy, garbled and misinterepted. (most certainly we have many things wrong.) Plutarch, visited Carthage years after it was sacked and reported seeing records in the ruins of transAtlantic trade with a great power on the western side of the Atlantic. (The Sea People?)
Sea People
The ancient Near East saw monumental changes in the 13th century BCE. The palace cultures of Crete, Mesopotamia, Canaan, and Hattu vanished en mass. Though the reasons for their disappearance remains difficult to pin down, one major factor appears to have been the migrations of the Sea Peoples.
We first hear of the Sea peoples during the reign of Merneptah (1224-1214 BCE) who describes a group of mixed ethnic affiliation attacking his Western frontier by land, and Northern flanks by Sea. The mention of Libyans among the Sea Peoples as arriving in wagon hordes with families suggest that the movements were economically motivated or the result of a large-scale famine.
The Sea Peoples are again mentioned during the reign of Merneptah’s successor Ramesses III (1182-1151 BCE) who in his eight year states:
"The foreign countries formed a conspiracy in their islands. All at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. No land could stand before their armies; they desolated people(s). They came toward Egypt; their confederation included the Philistines, Tjaker, Shekelesh, Danuna, and Weshesh, lands united."
Since several of the groups named do not appear also in Merneptah’s list, scholars have seen this second movement of Sea People as symptomatic of a larger Near Eastern crisis.
The Philistines, who first appear here, emerge later in the biblical record as the archenemies of the Israelites. In any event, the result of the Sea People’s attack was disastrous for Egypt, for Egypt was plunged into a sort of dark age
Weren't they on a 52 year cycle of some sort?...and they predicted the end times in 2002 or 2012? (...or, at least their calendar does not go beyond that date?)
All of that said I do however believe that much of the history and technology of ancient man was lost some how. I think in the burning of the libray at Alexandria. But hey what do I know......
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