{"id":13800,"date":"2011-02-15T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13800"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:27:42","slug":"brittany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/brittany\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brittany <\/strong>in northwestern France<\/a> is sometimes referred to as Little <\/em>or Lesser Britain<\/em>.\u00a0It is one of the most exciting regions of Megalithic Europe. The stone rows of Carnac are unequalled, Le Grand Menhir Bris\u00e9 was once the largest standing stone in Europe, while \"Brittany\"<\/a>Morbihan contains a huge number of dolmens and standing stones.2019 saw a report that “<\/em>Bettina Schulz Paulsson, an archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg, reexamined some 2,410 radiocarbon dating results that have been assigned to Europe\u2019s megaliths and put them through a Bayesian statistical analysis. Based on the picture the data presents, Schulz Paulsson believes that the megaliths were first constructed by dwellers of northwest France during the second half of the fifth millennium BC.”<\/em> (b) <\/sup>Both Robert Hensey(e)<\/sup><\/span>, who has studied and written about Newgrange [1766<\/a>.6] <\/sup>and Mike Parker Pearson, Stonehenge’s leading, authority, have endorsed this idea of a French origin for megalith building(c)<\/sup>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The earliest suggestion that Atlantis may have been connected with the Armorican<\/a> peninsula came from Fran\u00e7ois Gidon in the 1930s, when he proposed that Atlantis had been situated on an exposed Celtic Shelf<\/a> stretching from Brittany to Ireland. Unfortunately, he dates the submergence of this land to between 3000 and 1200 BC, which was millennia after <\/em>that part of the Celtic Shelf had been inundated by the Flandrian Transgression(f)<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jean Markle<\/a> was convinced that the Carnac stones were connected with Atlantis. Recently, Sylvain Tristan<\/a> followed the work of Jean Deruelle<\/a> in supporting a megalithic Atlantis. Further support has come from Alfred deGrazia<\/a> and Helmut Tributsch<\/a> who saw Megalithic Europe as Atlantis, with the island of Gavrinis in Brittany as its capital.<\/p>\n

The American researcher, Hank Harrison<\/a>, considers the Morbihan d\u00e9partment as a significant Atlantean location if not the home of its capita<\/span>l(g)<\/sup>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Reinoud deJonge <\/a>proposes even greater significance for the Brittany megaliths with his claim that they record the Flood of Noah in 2344 BC(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

A fairly lengthy illustrated paper regarding ancient catastrophes in Brittany is available online(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20241103152911\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2501\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> (Smithsonian<\/em> Feb 11, 2019) \u00a0https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/articles\/europe-megalithic-monuments-france-sea-routes-mediterranean-180971467\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> Stonehenge, other ancient rock structures may trace their origins to monuments like this | Request PDF (researchgate.net)<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> finistere-catastrophes-chronology.pdf (wordpress.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/303773605_Re-discovering_the_winter_solstice_alignment_at_Newgrange_Ireland<\/a>
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(f)<\/sup> Holocene Epoch – Coastal Ecosystems, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change | Britannica<\/a>\u00a0
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(g)<\/sup> Private Correspondence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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