​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.
Click the book icon for a list of the articles within each volume
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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:
​​​​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
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)
Welsh Triads and Mabinogi: a cross disciplinary exploration of ancient history (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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