Or the reason why they undertook this monumental task?
Then this book is a must for you. Robert John Langdon takes you back 10,000 years to a time when the last Ice Age melted leaving a series of smaller islands and peninsulas and not the island of Britain we see today.
By revising accepted Archaeological, Geological and Topological findings, Langdon has been able to produce simple but astonishing hypotheses with compelling scientific evidence, which shows that these monuments are five thousand years older than we currently believe and built by a 'lost civilisation' the ancient Greek philosopher Plato once wrote about.
The most sensational and controversial book in
the history of archaeology has now been published, which will not only
re-write the events of prehistoric Britain but moreover, the World.
Our
history books tell us that 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age finally
melted away to reveal the Britain we know today.
OR DID IT?
OR DID IT?
Britain had
been under TWO MILES of ice and the seas that now surround us were
frozen solid, leaving a huge mass of enormous weight pushing down on our
tiny island. This mass had compressed the land so much that the surface
sat some half a mile below the current sea level.
SO WHAT REALLY
HAPPENED AFTER THE ICE HAD MELTED?
In this book Robert John Langdon explores the probability that when the ice melted, rather than leaving the land mass we now know as Britain it did, in fact, leave a collection of smaller islands and peninsulas caused by river flooding as the ground water table had risen by just 30m higher than today, creating an aquatic tropical landscape.
Quite remarkably, this book shows that Stone
Age Man survived the Ice Age and the great flood to go on to develop
into a great maritime Civilisation – to date, this unknown society which
lived in boats on the waterways and used them to construction our
magnificent stone monuments, such as Stonehenge and Avebury that have
lasted nearly 10,000 years.
Revisiting accepted Archaeological,
Geological and Topological findings Langdon has been able to write an
astonishing hypothesis with compelling new proven evidence that not only
re-writes our view of prehistoric Britain, but consequently, our view
of the ancient world!
This Lost Civilisation not only had the advanced
engineering skills to build and sail boats, but moreover, was able to
travel throughout Europe including the Mediterranean to trade goods.
Astonishingly, their knowledge enabled them to undertake sophisticated
medical procedures, such as dentistry, limb removal and even brain
surgery, giving us a remarkable insight into the complexity and
sophistication of their society.
This book proves beyond doubt that
Stone Age Men were NOT the fur clad hunter/gatherers living in mud huts
as archaeologist would have you believe, but were instead members of a
Great Lost Civilisation which carbon dating has proven to be responsible
for the building of Stonehenge some 5,000 years earlier than currently
believed.
CONTENTS
Preface to SECOND EDITION
Prologue
Introduction
THE HYPOTHESIS
Section One: THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
Chapter 1 - A Land called DOGGER
Chapter 2 - The BIG squeeze
Chapter 3 - WATER, water everywhere...
Chapter 4 - Geological Maps
Section Two: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
Chapter 5 - Dykes and other Earthworks
Chapter 6 - Ditches best known as Moats
Chapter 7 - The Prehistoric Health Spa
Chapter 8 - Bluestones from far away
Chapter 9 - The Lost North West Entrance
Chapter 10 - The Avenue to a new Neolithic mooring place
Chapter 11 - Snails can tell us an old story
Chapter 12 - Barrows – Long and Round
Section Three: THE LANDSCAPE EVIDENCE
Chapter 13 - The Stonehenge Landscape
Chapter 14 - Old Sarum - the missing link
Chapter 15 - Avebury - the oldest of them all
Chapter 16 - Woodhenge & Durrington Walls - a structure by a harbour
Section Four: AN ANCIENT CIVILISATION
Chapter 17 - The Megalithic Builders
Epilogue Monument to the LOST WORLD of ATLANTIS
Appendices
The Hypothesis