Christine Pellech (1947- ) attained her Ph.D at the University of Vienna in 1974. She is a trained ethnologist and an ardent diffusionist. She was inspired by the work of Henriette Mertz, who bravely suggested in Dark Wine Sea that Homer’s Odyssey was a description of a very early voyage from the Mediterranean to America. Pellech expanded on Mertz’s theory in a book of her own^[640], unfortunately only published in German, as are her other books on the subject.

However, Pellech has established an English language journal, Migration & Diffusion, together with an associated website^(a).

Pellech’s starting point are prehistoric maps drawn on cave walls in Spain and France^(b) that have been dated to 12000 BC, which seem to indicate very early sea links between Europe and America. I am unaware that Pellech refers directly to Atlantis, but she does claim that the Caribbean had been the centre of an extensive maritime trading culture, millennia before Columbus. This idea has been used by Norman Frey to underpin his theory of Atlantis having been located off the coast of Cuba at the end of the Ice Age.

^(a) http://www.migration-diffusion.info/

^(b) http://www.migration-diffusion.info/article.php?id=162