Laoupi, Amanda

Published March 6, 2013

Adamantia (Amanda) Laoupi (1968- ) is a Greek archaeologist^(a) responsible for defining a new interdisciplinary field of study – Disaster Archaeology, which is concerned with a range of subjects that includes earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and asteroidal/cometary impacts, together with their local, regional and global effects. Laoupi has now expanded her views on disaster archaeology with the publication of her latest book, Pushing the Limits^[1233].

A number of her papers are available on the Internet^(f), one^(b) deals with comets and diseases, echoing some of the conclusions of Mike Baillie^[892] as well as those of Fred Hoyle & Chandra Wickramasinghe. 2013 saw further evidence published that suggested that comets may have seeded life on earth^(d). Additional confirmation came from data transmitted from comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko 67P in 2015 that revealed the existence there of sixteen organic compounds^(e).

Laoupi has also touched on the subject of Atlantis in a technical paper on catastrophist mythology^[⁰⁶²⁹^.9] presented to the 2005 Atlantis Conference. In her Disaster Archaeology website^(c) she has 14 discussion headings relating to Atlantis. Her conclusion is that the Atlantis story is a mixture of fact and fiction and perhaps is best related in her own words:

“The worldwide legend of Atlantis is a multi-layered ‘anthropological’ myth with strong cross-cultural parallels that echoes humanity’s experiences on mega-archaeodisasters, that had been filtrated through different symbolic languages. So, in this point of view, Atlantis as described by Plato, didn’t exist exactly as a whole, but as hidden information of different origin (chronological, topographic, environmental, archaeological, astronomical, etc), like the Homeric Epics and other famous literature of the ancient world.”

>Laoupi has also identifies Homer’s Hephaestos as a comet or meteor god^(g)(h).<

^(a) https://www.qconference-athens-2011.grazian-archive.com/amandalaoupi/index.html

^(b) https://www.2010-q-conference.com/cometsanddisease/index.html

>^(c) https://disasterarchaeology.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=3134pnc0c0e27 {link broken)<

^(d) https://phys.org/news/2013-03-evidence-comets-seeded-life-earth.html#ajTabs

^(e) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33720951

^(f) https://archaeodisasters.blogspot.ie/

>^(g) http://www.drgeorgepc.com/DisasterArchHephaeLaoupi.html

^(h) https://issuu.com/alaoupi/docs/laoupi._gods_in_heaven._ancient_greek___sanskrit_p<