​Features and Articles on the Academia Website
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The following articles and links are intended to stand-alone and give the reader a different insight into events of recent prehistory. They also build further on some of the themes discussed in the author's earlier books. If you like the features here then you will like the books.
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Prehistory Papers , Prehistory Papers II & Prehistory Papers III.
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​​​​Catastrophism in Prehistory
Catastrophism and Climate during the Holocene Epoch
Raised Beaches and Submerged Forests - Curious Anomalies:
Submerged Forests around Britain and Ireland: maps and photographs
The Irish Sea Coast: Holocene coastline
Patterns on the Irish Sea Floor: updated sonar surveys
Footprints from Atlantis: (Sea-levels and Submerged Forests)
When the Sky Leaned Over: (in Ancient China): Kung Kung & pole shifts
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Atlantis - updating the evidence
Submerged Islands opposite the Strait of Gibraltar: updating the evidence
Catastrophes: from Atlantis to the Aegean: ancient earthquakes & tsunamis
Plato's Impossible Plain: investigating the dimensions that Plato gives us
Fifteen Years on from Atlantis (of the West): progress since the book was published
The Neolithic Calendar: comparing the Coligny calendar with Plato's calendar
Solon's 'Egyptian' Atlantis: the authenticity of Solon's visit to Sais
Ancient Britain and Europe
Stonehenge Builders DNA: Aegean and Anatolian origins
Cannibals in Neolithic Britain & Ireland: what were the dolmens for?
Lyonesse - Lost: examining the roots of the Lyonesse legends
Callanish, Cronus and a Mysterious Stranger: ancient voyages into the Atlantic
British DNA: History and Legends of Origin Compared: DNA confirms history & legends
Stonehenge Blindness: ancient astronomy at Stonehenge
The Isle of Man Sea Views: and their Legends
Welsh Triads and Mabinogi: a cross disciplinary exploration of ancient history
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Ancient Egypt and Carthage
Narmer, Meri-nar and Queen Myrina: reconsidering First Dynasty Egypt
Akhenaten and Eclipses: eclipses during the Amarna period of Egypt
Troy, Amarna and the Earliest Dateable Solar Eclipse: clues to Bronze Age chronology
Akhenaten and Eclipses: was the Amarna period inspired by a series of eclipses?
Elysian Fields or Sekhet-Aaru - Greek or Egyptian?
Joseph's Famine - a Catastrophe Forewarned: seven year climate rhythms in ancient times
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Ancient Astronomy, Catastrophism, Pole-shifts and Pole-tides
Dangers to Earth from Ancient Supernovas: stellar-mergers and cosmic events
Supernova Ejecta and the Dangers to Earth: high-energy impacts and their consequences
The Spiral in Neolithic Art: the astronomical significance of spirals
Spirals on the Long Meg Standing Stone: spirals, wobbles and pole-shifts
Irish God Kings and a Nine-month Day: Irish legends and Newgrange astronomy
The Phaistos Disc; Minoans, Trojans and Etruscans: the Phaistos disc calendar
Earth's Wobbly Rotation: some modern internet contributions & animations
Diodorus Siculus and the Black Sea Flood: a pole-tide explanation for Noah's Flood?
Isiah, Hezekiah and the Missing Solar Eclipse: an eclipse reference from the Bible?
Throwing Planets Around: a review of a widely cited commentary on catastrophism​
Updating George F. Dodwell: a critique of the unpublished 1950's paper
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Ancient Calendars and Chronology
The Neolithic Calendar: comparing the Coligny calendar with Plato's calendar
On the Coligny Calendar: reconstructing the 11-year lunisolar cycle
The Phaistos Disc; Minoans, Trojans and Etruscans: the Phaistos disc calendar
The 432- & 360-day Cycles in the Hindu Cosmology: a memory of an ancient free nutation
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Pictish Studies
The Problem of the Picts: New Deer; Pictish DNA;
Three Pictures of Picts: three well known images and a new one
A Crocodile in Loch Ness? Saint Columba's monster sighting
Who were the Ancient Irish Cannibals? Attacotti and Scotti
Ptolemy's Map of Caledonia: an alternative interpretation
Dismissing the Venerable Bede: a 'Scythian' origin for the Picts
Dismissing the Venerable Bede - Part II: DNA and origins
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Cosmic Catastrophism affecting the Earth
The latest bibliography from William Thompson III: last updated 2020
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