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Do Welsh legends of lost cities beneath the sea match Plato's descriptions of the island civilization of Atlantis? Do Irish myths of a golden age when the eastern Irish Sea was a flowery plain describe the same place Herodotus said disappeared beneath the waves during a single day and night of geological upheaval millennia before Ancient Greece? Author and researcher Paul Dunbavin has embarked on a multidisciplinary investigation into how science could explain such a catastrophe and how modern archaeological findings point to a possible location for lost Atlantis. This book theorizes that the Middle Neolithic period around 5,000 years ago was a time of dramatic climate and sea-level changes all around the world. From an up-to-date scientific perspective, Dunbavin distills an array of significant geological theories and then examines the archaeological and mythological record—which together leads to a lost land thousands of years ago in the Irish Sea that was still mentioned in ancient Welsh histories recorded in the sixth century. Atlantis of the West presents a remarkable congruence of evidence from multiple disciplines to link the fabled lost Atlantis with the vanished Neolithic civilization of the megalithic builders. Maps and illustrations are included.
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Lost Atlantis | 1 |
| 2 | In Search of a Legend | 18 |
| 3 | The Figure of the Earth | 31 |
| 4 | Target Earth | 46 |
| 5 | The Chandler Wobble | 61 |
| 6 | The Evidence of Sea Level Variations | 77 |
| 7 | The Changing Climate | 97 |
| 8 | Memories of the Flood | 117 |
| 9 | Parallel Trends in Ancient Cultures | 140 |
| 10 | The Calendar Confusion | 162 |
| 11 | The World of the Fourth Millennium B.C. | 187 |
| 12 | Beneath the Irish Sea | 202 |
| 13 | The Land of Youth | 220 |
| 14 | Sunken Cities - Lost Lands | 238 |
| 15 | In a Golden Age | 261 |
| 16 | Druids and Standing Stones | 284 |
| 17 | A Neolithic Empire | 308 |
| App. A | The Neolithic Calendar | 319 |
| App. B | A Postscript | 323 |
| Notes and References | 329 | |
| Bibliography | 351 | |
| Index | 377 |
Overview
Do Welsh legends of lost cities beneath the sea match Plato's descriptions of the island civilization of Atlantis? Do Irish myths of a golden age when the eastern Irish Sea was a flowery plain describe the same place Herodotus said disappeared beneath the waves during a single day and night of geological upheaval millennia before Ancient Greece? Author and researcher Paul Dunbavin has embarked on a multidisciplinary investigation into how science could explain such a catastrophe and how modern archaeological ...