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To: SunkenCiv
"It also means that Plato didn't base his Atlantis story on the eruption of Thera.

I'm leaning toward SE Asia for the site of Atlantis these days.

Now, about Thera, I'm not gonna throw out the 1628BC date just yet. There's a lot of (other) supporting evidence for a major eruption at that time.

29 posted on 06/07/2005 6:43:43 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

AFAIK, there isn't any supporting evidence anywhere for it. The stuff that got buried isn't from that long ago (not by a long shot); there's no evidence that the island was abandoned for a long time, and no human remains have ever been found; the houses appear to have been stripped bare, suggesting that earthquakes tipped off the residents that they'd better get out; there's no literary evidence for any eruption there (apart from the 200 BC eruption); there's not even a blown-out city core -- the caldera is prehistoric.


30 posted on 06/07/2005 8:42:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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