{"id":13792,"date":"2011-02-14T15:11:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T15:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13792"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:28:28","slug":"bajocco-alf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bajocco-alf\/","title":{"rendered":"Bajocco, Alf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alf<\/strong><strong> Bajocco<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>an Italian expert on North Africa, published a paper in 1965 entitled <em>The Early Inhabitants of the Canary Islands<\/em><sup>(a)<\/sup><em>, <\/em>in which he discussed the possibility that the earliest inhabitants of the archipelago had a <a title=\"berbers\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/berbers\/\">Berber<\/a> origin, who in turn had been descendants of the Atlanteans. Nearly half a century later, the Berber connection was confirmed by genetic analysis<sup>(b)<\/sup>. Bajocco claimed that following dramatic climate changes in North Africa, some of the Berbers migrated westward as far as the <a title=\"canaries\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/canary-islands\/\">Canaries<\/a>, while others went eastward, settling in the Nile Valley.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960&#8217;s, Bajocco speculated<sup>(d)<\/sup> on the &#8216;probability&#8217; of Etruscan voyages to South America, citing the opinions of the Italian, Dr. Mario Gattoni Cellini, who claimed to have identified linguistic and other cultural similarities between the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/etruscans\/\">Etruscans<\/a> and &#8216;Carib Shamanism&#8217;. Cellini&#8217;s speculations went so far as to suggest that the Aymara came from Crete and the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/maya\/\">Maya<\/a> are akin to Sardinians!<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, Bajocco published an article<sup>(c)<\/sup> in the Belgian journal <em>Kadath <\/em>comparing the \u2018<a title=\"bimini road\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bimini-roadwall\/\">Bimini Wall\u2019 <\/a>with underwater features discovered off Lanzarote in the Canaries by <a title=\"cappellano\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cappellano-pippo\/\">Pippo Cappellano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup>The Early Inhabitants of the Canary Islands | Agraw.com<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (link broken)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/10\/091021115147.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/10\/091021115147.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science-frontiers.com\/sf058\/sf058a02.htm\">https:\/\/www.science-frontiers.com\/sf058\/sf058a02.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(d) <\/sup>Egerton Sykes&#8217; <em>Atlantis<\/em> Vol 19.1 Feb\/Mar 1966 p.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alf Bajocco, an Italian expert on North Africa, published a paper in 1965 entitled The Early Inhabitants of the Canary Islands(a), in which he discussed the possibility that the earliest inhabitants of the archipelago had a Berber origin, who in turn had been descendants of the Atlanteans. 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