Catastrophism in Prehistory – an Online Research Source Paul Dunbavin (2024) Introduction: This document holds links to various external URL web-pages. Good science may also be found on such pages written by academics, journalists and by non-academics. The links here are intended to assist anyone wishing to research catastrophism in prehistory, while avoiding the pseudo-science that contaminates such attempts via search engines. It was originally maintained on the author’s website, which will cease, at the latest,by 2025. The list is a work-in-progress and will be updated approximately annually; and any hyperlinks that become defunct removed or noted. Unfortunately, many journalists’ online articles and Youtube videos are ephemeral, but while they are live they offer a good summary of academic papers. This can be a boon for cross-disciplinary research as it avoids paying for paywalled papers and subscriptions that turn-out to be a waste of reading time! Often, web pages are renamed but not redirected, so it is always worth attempting a keyword search. Redirected links may be slow to appear or may not work on older browsers and Windows versions. If a link doesn’t open then try cut-and-paste directly into a browser or search engine for a partial-url. Detailed references to published academic papers and to other useful urls may also be found in the author’s research articles and papers available on the Academia webpage below. Academia page for Paul Dunbavin: https://sky.academia.edu/PaulDunbavin Books Firstly, the following links are to the author's own books. These are now available via Amazon Kindle as pdf downloads at low cost or as hard copy. The income is not-for-profit but covers the cost of research and the Academia page. UK Site Prehistory Papers (2020) Prehistory Papers II (2021) Prehistory Papers III (2023) Towers of Atlantis (2017) Under Ancient Skies (2005) Atlantis of the West (2002) ** Picts and Ancient Britons (1998) USA Site Prehistory Papers (2020) Prehistory Papers II (2021) Prehistory Papers III (2023) Towers of Atlantis (2017) Under Ancient Skies (2005) Atlantis of the West (2002) ** Picts and Ancient Britons (1998) ** A second edition of The Atlantis Researches (1995); the first edition is not available online but a few hardcopies remain if you search. Amazon has a huge problem with pirated books. These are all illegal copies of early versions in a different cover. Amazon Kindle is AI and they do not seem to care about book piracy. Buyer-beware! See this link on Atlantipedia: https://atlantipedia.ie/samples/kindles-spurious-atlantis-books/ External Web Page research sources follow below (10 pages): External Web Pages Atlantis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokalisierungshypothesen_zu_Atlantis (in German) Atlantipedia Thiswebsite remains an excellent entry-point for research and also access to some of the dafter ideas– the website editor duly records everything he finds! http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/tag/atlantipedia-com/ http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/tag/gettysburg-seamount/ https://atlantisrisingmagazine.com/article/did-the-russians-find-atlantis/ ** http://www.atlantisrising.com/ ** ** The Atlantisrisingwebsite is defunct since mid-2019 but it may yet return in some form, which is why I have left this link in place in case someone purchases and restarts this well-known name. Actually there are so many entry points to the subject but most will lead you to stargates and fiction. It remains difficult to separate these from true research. Erlingsson’s Irish Hypothesis www.erlingsson.com A competently-argued theory by an expert in undersea mapping, which I didn’t agree with but didn’t deserve the savaging it received from the Irish academics. You may have to search to find his book. Viatcheslav Koudriavtsev Another well-argued theory that I did not agree with but it remains worth reading: http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/koudriavtsev-viatcheslav/ http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/wg/atlan4_e.htm http://shimajournal.org/issues/v10n2/k.-Hallerton-Shima-v10n2.pdf Catastrophism and Chronology The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies publishes quarterly Chronology and Catastrophism Review – its origins go back to Velikovsky (the V-author) but in recent years the content has grown somewhat in credibility. However, anyone who is not influenced by either Velikovsky or creationism should still approach the content with due care and attention! The present author’s articles may be found in C&C Review 2017.3, pp 53-4and Review 2018.3, pp. 50-53. http://www.sis-group.org.uk/ Cosmic Catastrophism Affecting the Earth William Thompson III publishes a regularly updated listing: Cosmic Catastrophism Affecting the Earth - Bibliography and Handbook His list also contains some creationist material, but a lot of good sources too. As an astronomerphysicist his focus is primarily from cosmic influences rather than earth-based, which makes it an invaluable repository of reference sources. The mid-Holocene event c.3100-3200 BC This is the most prominent ‘event’ signal in the prehistoric record and most of the links here will lead to it in some way or other: Prehistory, climate, sea-level changes, etc On Neolithic climate changes: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229684786_Glacier_resurgence_at_the_Atlanticsub-Boreal_transition https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227538423_A_major_widespread_climatic_change_around_5300_ cal_yr_BP_at_the_time_of_the_Alpine_Iceman http://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/piora-oscillation.htm ** link renamed as at 12/23 https://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/2017/03/16/piora-oscillation/ https://dbpedia.org/page/Piora_Oscillation The piora-oscillation seems to be a high-altitude climate signal, not discernible at lower levels, that is associated with the glacier advances The Submerged Forest at Borth near Aberystwyth Excellent pictures of the tree stumps revealed by Storm Hannah in 2019: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/storm-hannah-unearths-sunken-forest-16201397 https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/421874/details/tanybwlch-submerged-forest https://www.nature.com/articles/278409a0**the 1979 carbon-dating in Nature is pay-walled Footprints from Atlantis A detailed (September 2022)examination of the Mesolithic and Neolithic footprints found on the beach at Formby (Liverpool) not far from where the mid-Holocene submerged forest was also found. As so often, the Springer Nature article is pay-walled. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/clippings/the-independent-how-scientists-are-taking-snapshots-ofprehistori The paywalled article that was reviewed above may be found direct at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01856-2 See also: https://www.academia.edu/95341518/Footprints_from_Atlantis_Sea_Levels_and_Submerged_Forests_ https://spirallingleaf.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/footprints-and-the-ephemeral-stone-circle-of-formby-point/ Lost Islands in Cardigan Bay New research in 2022 discusses the Welsh legend of Cantrae'rGwaelod: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/32596 A Submerged Forest in the Solent Researchers discovered 6400-year old wood alongside ship-wood of unknown age: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw/ship.htm A Mesolithic boat building site in the same area https://www.newsweek.com/stone-age-boat-building-site-discovered-1455420 Meehan - Donnelly I mentioned this website: Whatever happened in 3200 BC in the postscript of Atlantis of the West and it came out shortly after my work in the 1990s, I think without any influence either way. I remember that most of the references were quite sound when I followed them up at the time and a good example of parallel thinking on ancient climates. Don't worry about the jokey format; obviously the author doesn't take himself too seriously! Some links are broken, but still worth a look. http://www.stanford.edu/~meehan/donnelly/ https://web.stanford.edu/~meehan/donnellyr/summary.html Sea Level Changes around Britain & Ireland The older works of R. Kay Gresswell and J.A. Steers dating from the 1950s have stood the test of time. They contain a host of field evidence for the British coast that predates the glacio-eustatic sea-level theories of the 1960s onwards; and also older field evidence from coastal deposits that have since been destroyed. Facsimile editions of their books are now available on Kindle; no more touring around libraries to find them all! A good entry point to research is available via these websites. Ronald Kay Gresswell https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-R-Kay-Gresswell/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AR.Kay%20Gresswell https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gj.3350020106 James Alfred Steers http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50023629/ redirects to: https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgd6RJmJDw4PwFXh9jcT3.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Alfred_Steers https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-James-Alfred-Steers/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AJames+Alfred+Steers Holocene Climate Sir Harry Godwin A British pioneer of climate science, who evolved the currently-accepted view of climate change during the Holocene era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Godwin https://www.bookdepository.com/author/Sir-Harry-Godwin https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1986.tb00590.x Hubert Lamb The work of this pioneer climate scientist stands the test of time and his work remains a huge repository of ‘pure’ Holocene and ice-age climate data that predates (and is not biased towards) the current consensus of climate change driven solely by glacial eustasy and Milankovitch cycles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Lamb https://enthusiasmscepticismscience.wordpress.com/h-h-lamb/ https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/24/hh-lamb-climate-present-past-future-vol-2-in-review-part-i/ Lamb’s Climate History and the Future is available here online with restricted access. Holocene Sea-levels Worldwide This website lists 80+sources of sea-levels higher than present during the Holocene. Their focus is to question assumptions that higher CO2 will cause higher sea-levels. I recognize how much work must have gone into collecting this research. https://notrickszone.com/2m-higher-holocene-sea-levels/ An animation of the British Ice-sheet during the last Ice Age It is pretty to look at, but there is actually a huge circular-argument at the root of this science! https://www.space.com/ancient-ice-sheet-melt-britain-ireland The original research (paywalled) is at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bor.12594 Astronomy and Catastrophism The following links give insight into the author’s theory that catastrophic impacts can be caused by high-velocity low-mass impactors or gravitational waves ejected from ancient stellar explosions. Miyake Events Are cosmic rays distorting the radiocarbon chronology? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspa.2022.0497 Heavy asteroids and super-heavy elements Local asteroids (and those of non-solar origin) may contain stable elements heavier than Uranium left over from the early solar nebula or made in the cores of dense exploding stars: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04454-8 Interstellar Comets and Meteors Only recently have we seen hard-evidence of something that everyone knew must exist: https://www.space.com/second-interstellar-object-a-meteor-discovery.html https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9405071 https://www.eso.org/public/images/velasnrlasilla/ https://www.gemini.edu/node/21240 https://bgr.com/2019/09/12/interstellar-object-astronomy-observations-comet/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/newly-discovered-comet-is-likely-interstellar-visitor/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-observes-1st-confirmed-interstellar-comet/ https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/interstellar-asteroids-found-hiding-plain-sight Fast Stars If black holes can eject stars from the galaxy then how many smaller fast-objects must be flying around the galaxy at similar velocities? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/13/superfast-star-found-leaving-milky-way-at-1700km-persecond Supernovas, Gravity Waves and more... Gravity waves from nearby galactic explosions are another possible cause of catastrophic events; Previous excellent animations are no longer livesearch instead: https://www.popsci.com/search/Ligo Several animations will come out if you search for “youtube gravitational wave animation video” including an animation of the squeezing and pulling of space-time as the wave reaches the Earth. A distant Supernova gives a warning before it Explodes https://keckobservatory.org/dying-star Novas accelerate mass away from an explosion at maximum predicted possible velocity https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn0567 A new neutron star merger announced in 2020 https://www.ligo.org/detections/GW190425.php The largest black hole merger detected to-date https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/2/21417412/ligo-virgo-gravitational-waves-black-hole-merger-intermediate-mass https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02524-w Supermassive black hole ejects a jet of matter at 99% of lightspeed https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/famous-black-hole-has-jet-pushing-cosmic-speed-limit/ https://www.courthousenews.com/astronomers-observe-final-scream-of-star-swallowed-by-black-hole/ https://www.space.com/5826-scream-black-hole-birth-detected-halfway-universe.html A Black Neutron Star Evidence for compact stars of mass intermediate between a black hole and a neutron star https://www.cnet.com/news/collision-between-black-hole-and-mysterious-object-puzzles-astronomers/ https://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GW190814/ https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/space/2020/06/mysterious-cosmic-object-swallowed-byblack-hole-baffles-astronomers https://physicsworld.com/a/gravitational-waves-could-reveal-the-birth-of-a-quark-star/ Fast Blue Optical Transients A recently discovered (2018) new type of supernova that can eject material at relativistic speeds https://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-2020-and-astronomers-have-just-found-a-new-class-of-exploding-stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8bcf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8cc7 Is there a solution to the three-body problem? This is one way that an intruding body could eject a comet from a star system https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-say-they-ve-found-one-way-to-crack-the-infamous-three-body--problem https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1833-8 (pay walled!) ...and beware of black tennis balls! https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/09/scientists-think-there-might-be-a-black-hole-orbiting-the-sun.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf Dark Matter Time to rethink our ideas about the nature of the universe(s)! https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/08/dark-matter-one-last-push-to-crack-the-biggest-secret-inthe-universe NASA could not prevent an asteroid impact! Should this revelation come as any surprise? https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-simulated-asteroid-couldnt-stop-impact-europe-2021-5?r=US&IR=T https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/space/asteroid-2021-earth-nasasimulation-b1841219.html The Earth’s Rotation in Prehistory Chandler Wobble, Pole-shifts, etc Animations are the best way to understand precisely what the equations describe. If these links don’t open then see also my detailed article with more urls: https://www.academia.edu/98216412/Earths_Wobbly_Rotation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGBRF_CirHo** still live as at 12/23 https://phys.org/news/2009-09-earth-chandler-revealed.html https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Science/EarthRotation/PolarMotionPlot.html https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Science/EarthRotation/EarthRotation.html Yes the Earth's rotation axis can move! Here are two recent online articles: But the modern motions are tiny and we do not notice them. https://news.agu.org/press-release/weve-pumped-so-much-groundwater-that-weve-nudged-the-earths-spin https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092114 or try the paywalled article at: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL092114 https://news.agu.org/press-release/climate-has-shifted-the-axis-of-the-earth/ The Free Core Nutation - recent investigations https://doi.org/10.1029/1998GL900225 this now diverts to a Wiley (paywalled) page at: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/1998GL900225 https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40623-018-0971-9 Magnetic Events - Recent and Ancient The ‘Gothenburg’ Event https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003358947790031X Ancient and recent Miyake Events https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2022.0497 now diverts to: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspa.2022.0497 https://www.livescience.com/miyake-events-mystery-deepens https://www.livescience.com/carrington-event https://www.desmog.com/nils-axel-morner/ (obituary) Earth's Twisting Core New research emphasizes the independent rotation of Earth's core https://www.independent.co.uk/space/earth-core-reverses-spin-b2098357.html https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35687683/ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9916 Chaotic Motion and the Earth's Wobble In extreme circumstances the core wobble of the Earth could become chaotic in a similar way to that of a double pendulum. You will need to brush-up on your differential equations to fully understand that one! The late Peter Warlow proposed in the 1970s that such a motion could cause the Earth's axis to completely turnover and thus be the cause of magnetic reversals (a-la-Velikovsky). This is unlikely to have occurred during human prehistory, but we shouldn't rule it out for distant geological epochs. Here are a few links to follow: The Double Pendulum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Z8wLLPNE0 ** direct link broken (Youtube is great but also ephemeral – try a search for “double pendulum animation”)! The tippe-top http://www.universeofparticles.com/2018/10/29/peter-warlows-tippe-top-theory/ https://www.universeofparticles.com/2018/10/26/geomagnetic-reversal/ Evidence for 'continent-sized' structures at the core-mantle boundary layer https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-found-surprise-structures-wrapped-around-the-centre-of-earth The Earth’s inner-core also contains lighter elements https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04361-x#citeas (another paywalled Springer article) Human DNA, origins and migrations DNA Studies - Britain, Ireland and Western Europe The new science of DNA ancestry is forcing archaeologists to revise some of their theories about our ancient past. Human migrations during the Holocene offer clues to causal events. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/it-s-official-dna-tests-show-yorkshire-people-really-are-a-different-breed1-5076485 http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature25738 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2015/mar/first-fine-scale-genetic-map-british-isles https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18489735 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47540792 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0871-9 Evidence of British DNA from the Mesolithic Era https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-s-oldest-human-dna-reveals-post-ice-age-britainwas-split-into-two-tribes/ar-AA13k5RC?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=553c9647797f49d69ca848f59fe33068 DNA of western European and Scandinavian Mesolithic populations https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760011/ Inbreeding within burials at Newgrange suggest an elite of Irish 'god-kings' in the mid-Neolithic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53059527 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2378-6 Holocene sea-level change around Britain and Ireland One of the author’s theories is that Ireland and Britain were linked as a single island prior to the midHolocene (3100 BC) as remembered in the myths and legends; but contrary to prevailing science. The Irish Sea The following links will give an entry for anyone who wishes to investigate potential archaeology on the Irish Sea floor: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/irish_finalreport(maps).pdf** link broken try instead: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/500752/1/CR12127N.pdf http://www.gpsnauticalcharts.com/main/1411_0-irish-sea-western-part-nautical-chart.html http://www.gpsnauticalcharts.com/main/1121_0-irish-sea-with-saint-george-s-channel-and-north-channelnautical-chart.html http://www.gpsnauticalcharts.com/main/1977_0-holyhead-to-great-ormes-head-nautical-chart.html http://fishing-app.gpsnauticalcharts.com/i-boating-fishing-web-app/fishing-marine-chartsnavigation.html?title=Irish+Sea+with+Saint+George%27s+Channel+and+North+Channel+boating+ap p#10.49/53.6274/-4.8274 https://atlas.marine.ie/ http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-2117 http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/PDF/jncc446_web.pdf **link broken or deleted Shipwreck data (sign-in required) https://data.admiralty.co.uk/portal/apps/sites/#/marine-data-port British Geological Survey database http://www.bgs.ac.uk/GeoIndex/offshore.htm **link broken try instead: https://www.bgs.ac.uk/map-viewers/geoindex-offshore/ Irish Sea Wind Farms, etc Of course it should concern us that wind farms may be built on the most likely site of the Elysian Fields, or the submerged Celtic Otherworld! One hopes that they will do some archaeology before destroying evidence. Unfortunately, the shallow eastern Irish Sea is ideal for wind farms and the sea views from all the tourist beaches will be utterly ruined by these monstrosities. bp allocates names to planned Irish Sea offshore wind farms | Offshore (offshore-mag.com) http://www.travelwatch-isleofman.org/windfarms.html https://www.offshorewind.biz/2012/12/04/local-residents-concern-over-irish-sea-wind-farm/ Anglesey Excavations https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-40386797 https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/archaeologists-anglesey-neolithic-prestigiousaward-14025073 Submerged Dolmens and Coastal Monuments This excellent website has animations and pictures of the Rostellan dolmen in Cork Bay, Ireland https://voicesfromthedawn.com/rostellan-portal-tomb/ The Yelland Stone Row, near Barnstaple, Devon This monument of uncertain age is now lost in the silt of the Taw estuary. Its submergence shows us how difficult it would be to find other structures lost further out beneath the sea bed. https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/search-begins-lost-stones-yelland/ There are also submerged forests in the same area. https://johnhmoore.co.uk/hele/mesolithic.htm Other coastal tombs from the Middle Neolithic may be found at Er -Lannic, Brittany: http://www.megalithes-morbihan.com/sites/er-lannic-megalithic-enclosures.html or find via the main menu page: https://www.megalithes-morbihan.com http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/archives/2016/09/21/34350695.html https://www.lieux-insolites.fr/morbihan/er%20lannick/lannic.html The Knockbrack chambered tomb and the Alter Wedge tomb in southern Ireland. https://www.tonyoneill.org/tag/knockbrack-megalithic-tomb/ http://www.megalithicireland.com/Altar%20Wedge%20Tomb.html The Welsh Triads The best translation of these is still that of Rachel Bromwich, but her version of the third series triads is not available online. There is a new open-source English version here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Triads_of_Britain Ancient Egypt Akhenaten and Eclipses In parallel with my own eclipse investigations: 1998-2005 for Under Ancient Skies the following paper by William Murray came out in 2003. It represents genuine parallel thinking on the same subject: https://www.egyptologyforum.org/EMP/DAPE.pdf My own unpublished 2006 paper to close the research is available here via Academia https://www.academia.edu/62458309/Akhenaten_Eclipses_and_the_Chronology_of_the_Egyptian_XVIII_Dynasty And a later update: https://www.academia.edu/68529520/Troy_or_Amarna_The_Oldest_Recorded_Solar_Eclipse 26th Dynasty Mummies found near the Pyramid of Djoser Egyptologists have announced the discovery of a cache of mummies from the 26th dynasty at a site near the Old Kingdom pyramid of Djoser. As this was the period when Old Kingdom customs and religion were revived after Psamtek expelled the foreign kings, it may contain evidence of the revised Saite Dynasty versions of the Book of the Dead and Coffin Texts. This was the period when both Solon and Herodotus visited Egypt so perhaps these mummies could be contemporaries of the priests who met Herodotus; or perhaps the Psenophis of Heliopolis to whom Solon spoke and was given a version of the Atlantis story. It will be interesting to see if any depictions of the Elysian Fields are found that resemble the rectangular plain described to Solon. Is it too much to hope that we may at last find some ‘hard evidence’ that will wake up the sceptical archaeologists? It has always been too much of a coincidence that Plato placed Solon’s visit to Egypt, at just the right era when the old customs were revived. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/3/egypt-unveils-59-ancient-coffins-in-major-archaeologicaldiscover https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/six-tombs-containing-mummies-belonging-elitefigures-26th-dynasty-020387 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/egypt-uncovers-20-mummies-in-vast-ancient-treasure-trovedvbtjv7dg *********************************************** Pictish Studies Not in any way related to the other subjects here, the author has always taken an interest in the Picts of ancient Scotland and British ethnography in general. To supplement the historical research in my 1998 book Picts and Ancient Britons a few new articles are available via the Academia page and some related external research here. Plutarch, Cronus (Saturn) and Callanish An interesting post that cites (without attribution) my own published theories regarding Saturn and Cronus, at Callanish and other stone circles; however, one doubts that the ancients could actually see Saturn’s rings! https://mumblewords.net/2021/07/05/on-the-antiquities-of-arran-2-machrie-moor-stonehenge-theworshop-of-saturn/ Wandering Finno-Ugrians? Andres Pääbo has been steadily evolving his own theories about Baltic maritime traders since 2002 and another update in May 2020. He would view western-Finnic languages as closer to Estonian than Finnish. Follow his work here: www.paabo.ca/uirala/index.html www.paabo.ca/uirala/4.expansouthinAtlantic.html A related independent study of the Baltic Wends https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianVeneti.htm Dr Euan MacKie I was sad to learn (belatedly) of the death of Euan MacKie in 2020. I believe he was the creator of the term ‘archaeoastronomy’ and always open to the idea that the Neolithic astronomer-priests and the later Druids were a continuous evolution, long before the new DNA evidence came to the fore. Although I don’t think I ever met him in person, he was helpful in correspondence in the 1980s and an archaeologist always open to new ideas, unlike so many of his contemporaries. His work on the Picts and Stonehenge will stand the test of time when others who criticised him are forgotten. Here are a few links to his work. https://robinheath.info/the-recent-passing-of-dr-euan-mackie/ https://www.academia.edu/11470159/New_evidence_for_a_professional_priesthood_in_the_Europ ean_Early_Bronze_Age?email_work_card=title Miscellaneous/Interesting Listed below here are here links that may not be directly relevant but nevertheless fascinating: Dolmens in Caucasia An astronomical alignment was found in a dolmen in the Caucasus (dolmen Kolikho). The similarity to dolmens in Atlantic Europe is clear, suggesting similar astronomical motives for its construction. The scientific film about the excavation (in Russian) was formerly available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrIrdIyHBNU ** link broken –try a search for dolmen Kolikho Text (in Russian) about the excavation is here: http://www.zhivaya-zemlya.ru/forum/index.php?topic=637.0 Mega-Tsunamis, Chinese Junks and Port Phillip Bay (courtesy: Bill Thompson) https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2019/03/15/mega-tsunamis-chinese-junks-and-port-phillip-bay-2/ Can we trust historical calendar dates - even as recently as the first millennium AD? To pin-down the calendar dates of legendary and physical events in prehistory to a true calendar date is not as easy as it appears in some history books. Perhaps even dates AD cannot be trusted https://www.academia.edu/40939151/Writers_and_Re-Writers_of_First_Millennium_History?email_work_car d=view-paper As at April 2024 ******************************************************************