Atlantis is bullshit and we all know it but what about this idea?

[Cormac995]

So, there's a lot of people who believe in Atlantis because of things like shared stories of floods and cultural similarities over great distances that don't make sense and so "Atlantis had to have existed! The only way this could happen is if Atlantis was around during the stone age!" Which is BS. Homer wrote that as an allegory and it's common knowledge and was at the time it was written that it was fiction and purely hypothetical. The reason it gained traction is because Hernick Himler was obsessed with the occult and drummed up BS evidence in a deranged attempt to prove all Arians were decedents of Atlanteans.

But what if there was an advanced civilization in the neolithic era just in a different way than we thought? I'm not talking about Atlantis level but what if there was a stone age city state that was the common origin for some of humanities first cultural developments. The Myan's and the Azteks both proved you can build a small nation with stone age technology so what if there was a neolithic city state in Doggerland that was the origin of many things early in human history? That would explain the flood stories that so many nations had in pre-history and even as early as the copper age.

It makes sense, from the perspective of the neolithic man it would seem magical for the whole world as you knew it to be swallowed by water. What if it's a story that was passed down through generational trauma of the first civilization in the world being swallowed by the waves. You all should check out this video it's great and covers a tone of stuff about Doggereland.

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[Anonymous]

Atlantis was supposed to have sunk according to the legends around 10,000 bc which puts it around the end of the ice age when sea levels rose. There have been ruins found all over from around 10000bc and the oldest found copper artifact is from 8000bc bear in mind that the stone age is supposed to have ended in 4000bc.

Seems likely that the Atlantis myth is more like a memory of the collapse of civilisation ie due to climate change such as the rising sea levels and severe weather from the end of the ice age. This also happened during the Bronze age collapse where civilisation disappeared for a time and only ancient Egypt came out of it though not as powerful as it once was and a lot of knowledge was lost. With rising sea levels a lot of ancient civilisations were lost and there are ancient cities all over the globe that were sunk at the end of the ice age in some sort of great catastrophe. Seemingly every culture in all continents have a long held disaster myth which talks of the fall of civilisation around the end of the ice age but then speak of wise people coming from the sea bringing knowledge of farming, building, medicine, astronomy, measuring time, calenders etc.

It's likely that there is some truth in the alatantis, it basically comes from Homer who heard it 2nd hand from the Egyptians as the ancient Greeks tried to recover lost knowledge from the Bronze age collapse and Greek dark age. Civilisations despite what we have been told were pretty advanced. For instance maize/corn is not a natural crop, it started off as grass and through selective breeding turned into an eatable nutritious food, they did similar with potatoes. They built walls that stand today with no mortar but each block fits perfectly, even today we would struggle, they built roads that are still there. They turned areas in the amazon that have soil infertile for farming into lush fertile farm land using techniques we can't match today.

Point is civilisation is very vulnerable, more vulnerable that anyone chooses to admit. A volcano in Iceland could erupt and throw ash up into the atmosphere for a year or a hundred years blotting out the sun which would be a major climate catastrophe as tempatures would drop and crops and livestock would die and as people starve in famine a pandemic would follow thus civilisation collapses. This actually happened a few times in history, its called volcanic winter.

Then there's earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, solar flares which could go along with volcanic eruptions all of which can enact a sudden change in the climate which would be absolutely disastrous for our current civilisation. The longer such events go on the harder it would be for civilisation to continue and daily survival becomes hard, maybe humans hunker down in fallout shelters and underground bunkers have been found all over the globe.

[slatyb]

Exactly. There is also a theory that the Black Sea basin was essentially dry until the sea level rose enough for the Mediterranean to overtop the Bosporus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't know it. How do you know it?