Research, Papers & Articles about Catastrophism & Prehistory

Prehistory Papers, volumes 1 - 4 [Amazon link] The articles and papers are grouped below by category. For a list of the articles in each book then just click one of the buttons below the book icon. Alternatively you can access the pdf versions from the Academia website via the links below. You can create a free Academia account and if you wish then add your name to the followers list; there you can browse the abstract and article  before downloading the pdf. Each pdf contains hyperlinks that give access to further information and cited research - but you must download the pdf to access these. If there is also a [pdf] hyperlink shown, this will open the pdf directly. You may also find hyperlinks underlined in the adjacent text - but many more are available in the pdf files to assist your research.

Catastrophism and Climate during the Holocene Epoch  – [pdf] – the Core wobble (FCW)

Raised Beaches and Submerged Forests : – [pdf] curious anomalies of geomorphology

Submerged Forests around Britain and Ireland:

– [pdf] locations & map with photo links

The Irish Sea Coast:

– [pdf] Holocene coastline evolution around Britain & Ireland

Patterns on the Irish Sea Floor:

– [pdf] analysing the seafloor sonar surveys

Footprints from Atlantis:

– [pdf] Sea-levels and Submerged Forests

When the Sky Leaned Over:

(in Ancient China): – [pdf] Kung Kung & pole shifts

Locusts, Biblical Plagues & Seven-year  Cycles: – [pdf] in nature & ancient beliefs

Submerged Islands opposite Gibraltar:

– [pdf] Atlantic seamounts & Holocene sea-levels

Catastrophes: from Atlantis to the Aegean:

– [pdf] ancient earthquakes & tsunamis

Plato’s Impossible Plain:

– [pdf] investigating the unbelievable dimensions that Plato gives

Fifteen Years on from Atlantis (of the West):

– [pdf] progress since the book was published

The Neolithic Calendar:

– [pdf] comparing the Coligny calendar to Plato’s 5+6 calendar

Solon’s ‘Egyptian’ Atlantis:

– [pdf] the authenticity of Solon’s visit to Sais

Stonehenge Builders DNA:

– [pdf] Aegean & Anatolian origins of the Britons

Cannibals in Neolithic Britain & Ireland:

– [pdf] what were the Neolithic dolmens used for?

Lyonesse – Lost:

– [pdf] exploring the roots of the Cornish Lyonesse legends

Callanish, Cronus and a Mysterious Stranger:

– [pdf] ancient voyages into the Atlantic

British DNA: History & Legends of Origin Compared:

– [pdf] DNA, history & the legends

Stonehenge Blindness:

– [pdf] Saturn astronomy and the Druids

The Isle of Man Sea Views:

– [pdf] the island coast and its many legends

Welsh Triads and Mabinogi:

– [pdf] a cross-disciplinary exploration of ancient history

Matriarchal Celts in the British Iron Age:

– or maybe not? [pdf]

Pytheas and Thule, Facts & Fictions:

– [pdf] a reassessment of his voyage

Narmer, Meri-nar and Queen Myrina:

– [pdf] reconsidering First Dynasty Egypt

Troy, Amarna & 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] were they Greek or Egyptian myths? (18 illustrations)

Joseph’s Famine – a Catastrophe Forewarned:

– [pdf] ancient seven year climate rhythms

Thutmose IV, the Aten and Solar Eclipses:

-[pdf] Eclipse omens during the XVIII Dynasty

 

Dangers to Earth from Ancient Supernovas:

– [pdf] stellar-mergers & distant cosmic events

Supernova Ejecta and the Dangers to Earth:

– [pdf] low mass, high-energy impacts

The Spiral in Neolithic Art:

– [pdf] the astronomical significance of the spirals

Spirals on the Long Meg Standing Stone:

– [pdf] spirals, wobbles & pole-shifts

Irish God Kings and a Nine-month Day:

– [pdf] Irish legends & Newgrange astronomy

The Phaistos Disc; Minoans, Trojans & Etruscans:

– [pdf] the Phaistos disc was a calendar

Earth’s Wobbly Rotation:

– [pdf] some modern internet contributions & animations

Diodorus Siculus & the Black Sea Flood:

– [pdf] a pole-tide explanation for Noah’s Flood?

Isiah, Hezekiah and the Missing Solar Eclipse:

– [pdf] an eclipse reference in the Bible?

Throwing Planets Around:

– [pdf] reviewing a widely-cited commentary on catastrophism​

Updating George F. Dodwell:

– [pdf] a critique of Dodwell’s unpublished 1959 paper

The Neolithic Calendar:

– [pdf] comparing the Coligny calendar to Plato’s 5+6 calendar

On the Coligny Calendar:

– [pdf] reconstructing the 11-year lunisolar cycle (5+6)

The Phaistos Disc; Minoans, Trojans and Etruscans:

– [pdf] the Phaistos disc calendar

The 432- & 360-day Cycles in Hindu Cosmology:

– [pdf] an ancient free nutation

 

The Problem of the Picts: – [pdf] New Deer; Pictish DNA, recent archaeology

Three Pictures of Picts:

– [pdf] three well known images and a new one in Fife

A Crocodile in Loch Ness?

– [pdf] Saint Columba’s monster sighting

Who were the Ancient Irish Cannibals?

– [pdf] Attacotti and Scotti

Ptolemy’s Map of Caledonia:

– [pdf] an alternative interpretation

Dismissing the Venerable Bede:

 – [pdf] a ‘Scythian’ origin for the Picts

Dismissing the Venerable Bede – Part II:

– [pdf]  DNA and Pictish origins