[SunkenCiv]

Virtually met the author on another forum. He uses the conventional pseudochronology of Egypt, and makes a mountain out of a molehill, claiming that the Bronze Age came to an end due to an (unattested) smallpox epidemic. Vanity publisher (so are the other dozen or more titles by the author):

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The Tragic End of the Bronze Age: A Virus Makes History by Tom Slattery

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[blam]

"Virtually met the author on another forum. He uses the conventional pseudochronology of Egypt, and makes a mountain out of a molehill, claiming that the Bronze Age came to an end due to an (unattested) smallpox epidemic. Vanity publisher (so are the other dozen or more titles by the author): "

The tree rings (worldwide) of that period indicate some type of catastrophe caused a 'dark age' that affected everything. Viruses can't do that.

[SunkenCiv]

[reprised from a GGG topic] Zangger discusses the long history (circa 1885, much earlier than I'd thought) of the "Thera was Atlantis" idea, and beginning on page 44 cuts it to ribbons. It should be noted that Zangger has his own book about what was and wasn't Atlantis. ;') Check out pp 48-49 for a summary of the problems with the idea, and an amusing catalog of other things attributed to the eruption.

I bought this book in May, and having started it up tonight with some cherry picking, it looks like something I'm going to read in entire.

The Future of the Past Archaeology in the 21st Century by Eberhard Zangger