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​Features and Articles

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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.

 

Most of these articles are now also available in the books and e-books:

Prehistory Papers , Prehistory Papers II  & Prehistory Papers III. 

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Alternatively you can access the webpage-version listed by category below.

Some articles may be listed under more than one category:

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​​​​Catastrophism in Prehistory

Catastrophism without Velikovsky!

Catastrophism and Climate during the Holocene Epoch (pdf)

Raised Beaches and Submerged Forests - Curious Anomalies (pdf)

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) (pdf)

When the Sky Leaned Over: (in Ancient China): Kung Kung & pole shifts

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Atlantis - updating the evidence

Is catastrophism becoming more acceptable to mainstream science? -

           Koudriavtsev's theory, Cuba?, Irish Sea anomalies

The First Dynasty – the Origins of the Egyptian State:

           degraded history; Sonchis of Sais; pole-tides & pole-shifts

Fifteen Years on from Atlantis (of the West): - a review and reminder

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

Elysian Fields or Sekhet-Aaru: (pdf) - the roots of Atlantis in Egyptian myths

Solon's 'Egyptian' Atlantis: (pdf) Internal details show that Solon did visit Egypt

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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: the History and Legends of Origin Compared (pdf): DNA confirms history & legends

Stonehenge Blindness (pdf): Astronomy at Stonehenge

Spirals on the Long Meg Standing Stone: spirals, wobbles and pole-shifts

The Isle of Man Sea Views and their Legends (pdf)

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Ancient Egypt and Carthage

Narmer, Meri-nar and Queen Myrina: reconsidering First Dynasty Egypt

Troy, Amarna and the Earliest Dateable Solar Eclipse: (pdf) clues to Bronze Age chronology

Akhenaten and Eclipses: (pdf) was the Amarna period inspired by a series of eclipses?

Elysian Fields or Sekhet-Aaru: (pdf) - 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

Ancient Astronomy and Terrestrial Catastrophism:  Oumuamua; Gravitational Waves; Plato's Calendar; Malta Temples

Dangers to Earth from Ancient Supernovas: stellar-mergers and cosmic events

Supernova Ejecta and the Dangers to Earth: high-energy impact events and their consequences

The Spiral in Neolithic Art; astronomical significance

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: (pdf): a pole-tide explanation for the Flood of Noah?

Isiah, Hezekiah and the missing Solar Eclipse(pdf) an eclipse reference in the Bible?

Updating George F. Dodwell - his1950's science re-examined

Throwing Planets Around - a review of the Woelfli papers on catastrophism

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Eclipses and Chronology

Troy, Amarna and the Earliest Dateable Solar Eclipse: (pdf) clues to Bronze Age chronology

Akhenaten and Eclipses: (pdf) was the Amarna period inspired by a series of eclipses?

Isiah, Hezekiah and the missing Solar Eclipse(pdf) an eclipse reference in the Bible?

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Ancient Calendars

The Neolithic Calendar: reconstructing the 5+6 year calendar in Plato's Critias

On the Coligny Calendar: comparing the Gaulish Druids calendar to the Neolithic calendar

The Phaistos Disc; Minoans, Trojans and Etruscans: the Phaistos disc calendar

The 432- & 360-day Cycles in Hindu Cosmology: (pdf) 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: (pdf) - Part II: DNA and origins

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Cosmic Catastrophism affecting the Earth

The latest bibliography from William Thompson III (pdf) last updated 2020

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