Atlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World

Rating:
Summary: Excellent and Fun!
Review: This work stands at the threshold of a new age of discovery. Erikson and Zapp deftly take apart the conventional view of history as Eurocentric and recent... with the Americas as a barbaric afterthought to civilization. The authors reveal a multitude of sites in Mesoamerica that hearken back to Plato's description of Atlantis. They reveal an ancient world that included seafarers from Africa, China, Polynesia, and the Mediterranean that met in a virtual melting pot in the Americas. The fun part is that they describe the locations of these ancient sites and their legacy in stone and myth. Some are as enticing as the awaited undersea site off Cuba. For the independent investigator this book is a must.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent and Fun!
Review: This work stands at the threshold of a new age of discovery. Erikson and Zapp deftly take apart the conventional view of history as Eurocentric and recent... with the Americas as a barbaric afterthought to civilization. The authors reveal a multitude of sites in Mesoamerica that hearken back to Plato's description of Atlantis. They reveal an ancient world that included seafarers from Africa, China, Polynesia, and the Mediterranean that met in a virtual melting pot in the Americas. The fun part is that they describe the locations of these ancient sites and their legacy in stone and myth. Some are as enticing as the awaited undersea site off Cuba. For the independent investigator this book is a must.

Rating:
Summary: Persuasive and important findings
Review: Zapp and Erikson have done a fine job of putting together a convincing argument that our understanding of ancient civilizations is going to have to be completely revised. Although orthodox resistance to the theory put forward in this book and others by Hancock, Bauval, etc. looks formidable, history shows that certain dogmatic "truths" of one age will eventually be questioned, debated, and revised over time. I think we're getting to that point now regarding catastrophism and the existance of advanced, Pre-Diluvian civilizations, and this book is an important addition to the ever-widening body of knowledge that is ruffling a lot of feathers in academia. One complaint though; I really wish the publisher (Adventures Unlimited Press) would do a better job editing and proof-reading; this book, like others in their series, is riddled with spelling, punctuation, and grammatical mistakes that really detract from the credibility of the authors' work. Clean up your act, David Hatcher Childress! Other than this, the book is a great read.