The Real Atlantis

Many theories exist as to the validity of the tale of the so-called Atlantis. The name is not so much a name for the country as a descriptor for its location....in the Atlantic. Is it possible that a land once existed in the middle of the pond? Is it possible that some great natural calamity occurred that wiped it from the earth leaving only fragile memories lost in antiquity?

Consider for a moment the problem of the early, ca. 12,000 BCE occupation of the eastern seaboard of North America by peoples who apparently bare greater connection to Spain and France than to Siberia (based on the similarities to the Clovis head points used on spears). How did they travel that distance over wide open seas? Maybe they did not.....maybe it was one puddle jump to a land mass and then another...and maybe even another.

Consider what we have really only recently come to understand about super volcanoes...one was discovered in the last decade in Indochina that apparently was unknown prior to that time. It had erupted some 70,000+ years ago. What if the 'Atlantic" we know so well is another huge, super volcano remnant caldera?

Consider for a moment the surprisingly and unexplainable early high technology and civilization that arises in South America, North Africa, and along other, as of yet, unknown locations? Consider the strong links in mythology, craft, industry, and even language in some locations?

Who knows, maybe the next super volcano will sink all of Europe, North America or Australia to the depths of the ocean. Thrust back to the surface may be rugged land masses, with secrets and revelations that will haunt what remains of humanity just as Plato's report of this ancient legend has done for centuries.