Features and Articles
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 and Prehistory Papers II.
Alternatively you can access the online versions and relevant links below:
Catastrophism in Prehistory
Catastrophism without Velikovsky!
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
When the Sky Leaned Over (in Ancient China): Kung Kung & pole shifts
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
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
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 and legends
Stonehenge Blindness (pdf): Astronomy at Stonehenge
Ancient Egypt and Carthage
Narmer, Meri-nar and Queen Myrina: reconsidering First Dynasty Egypt
Troy, Amarna and the Earliest Dateable Solar Eclipse: clues to Bronze Age chronology
Joseph's Famine - a Catastrophe Forewarned: investigating seven year climate rhythms in ancient times
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 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
Cosmic Catastrophism affecting the Earth
The latest bibliography from William Thompson III (updated 2020)
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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 Irish Cannibals? Attacotti and Scotti
Ptolemy's Map of Caledonia: an alternative interpretation
Dismissing the Venerable Bede: a 'Scythian' origin for the Picts
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Downloads and pdf files of older articles and papers
Some of the author's earlier published papers and some articles withdrawn from publication in 2006 due to attempted editorial censorship of the content. They are unchanged in content other than formatting for publication in Prehistory Papers in 2020. Please note that some of the older links mentioned in the pdf's may now be broken.
Fifteen Years on from Atlantis (of the West)
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Reviews, etc
Reviews of some relevent books and papers