{"id":17669,"date":"2012-06-27T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=17669"},"modified":"2026-05-02T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:28:12","slug":"gallagher-ronnie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gallagher-ronnie\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher, Ronnie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronnie<\/strong> Gallagher<\/strong> is a retired environmental manager and an amateur archaeologist with a great interest in the Caucasus region, where \"Ronnie<\/a>he has carried out extensive research. He has written an interesting paper on the effects of the post-glacial flooding of the Caspian Sea and\u00a0its former physical connection\u00a0with the Black Sea<\/a>, as well as with the Arctic Ocean(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

Gallagher has also drawn attention to cart ruts <\/a>in Azerbaijan(b)<\/sup> similar to, but not as numerous as, those on Malta. He is also an admirer of the work of Reginald Fessenden<\/a>, who placed Atlantis in the Caucasus(c) <\/sup>and proposed that migrants from that region were responsible for kick-starting what we know as the Egyptian civilisation. The renowned Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray were sympathetic to this view, as is Gallagher(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

However, Gallagher goes further and suggests that people from the Caucasus were also responsible for the development of the great cultures of Sumeria<\/a> and the Indus Valley<\/a>!<\/p>\r\n

Gallagher expanded on his view that migrants from the Caucasus had settled in Egypt, suggesting that they brought with them memories of their homeland and one of its best-known landmarks – Mount Barmak in modern Azerbaijan and used its outline to inspire the Great Sphinx<\/a> at Giza(g)<\/sup>!!! In another paper, he expands on anthropomorphic images in Azerbaijan(l)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

His own conclusion regarding the location of Atlantis in the Caucasus region was that it was inundated as a consequence of the creation of a vast \u2018flooded Eurasia\u2019 that resulted from the collapse of glacial ice-dams(d)(h)(m)<\/sup>, comparable with the Lake Missoula<\/a> Floods in America.<\/p>\r\n

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Gallagher\u2019s paper should be read in conjunction with a 2004 paper(e) <\/sup>from a team of Russian and US scientists that relates to a \u2018Giant Siberian Lake\u2019.<\/p>\r\n

Related to this is a recent study that has shown that 12 million years ago, the same vast region was home to the Earth’s largest-ever lake, which the authors have called Paratethys(i)<\/sup>. In fact, it is claimed that its history begins even further back at 34 million years ago and at its greatest extent stretched from Germany to China!(j)<\/sup><\/p>\r\n

Gallagher’s studies in Azerbaijan continue, where he has identified an extensive number of strandlines in the region resulting from ancient catastrophic flooding.<\/p>\r\n

His presentation to the Second International Conference on the Aral Sea Problems in 2019 in St. Petersburg, is available online in a lengthy<\/em> and extensively illustrated <\/em>pdf file(k)(n)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

He has now published a number of extended abstracts of recent papers on the academia.edu<\/em> website(g)<\/sup>. He concluded one(f)<\/sup> with the following:\u00a0 “However, the\u00a0 thorny\u00a0 problem\u00a0 of\u00a0 what\u00a0 might\u00a0 have\u00a0 caused\u00a0 the\u00a0 Gilazi\u00a0 strandlines and\u00a0 the\u00a0 inferred worldwide flood can only be speculated on and will be controversial. <\/em><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/em>Perhaps open-minded discussion on the theories, such as the reality of the diverted Russian Rivers, an enlarged Ponto Caspian and the ingress of marine waters into the Eurasian continental interior might begin to reveal a different pre-history and provide support for a world-wide flood.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Also See: <\/strong>Lake Agassiz<\/a>, Deglaciation<\/a> and Melt Water Pulses<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/95437026\/The-Ice-Age-Rise-and-Fall-of-the-Ponto-Caspian-Ancient-Mariners-and-the-Asiatic-Mediterranean<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.azer.com\/aiweb\/categories\/magazine\/ai103_folder\/103_articles\/103_cart_ruts.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.radiocom.net\/Deluge\/Deluge1-6.htm<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.grahamhancock.com\/forum\/GallagherR1.php<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(e) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220120071604\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-5079\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/37625564\/Observations_of_Caspian_strandlines_their_use_as_highstand_indicators_with_consideration_for_their_implications_with_regard_to_regional_geomorphology_paleodrainage_and_biodiversity<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(g)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/37625563\/Anthropomorphic_images_in_Azerbaijans_landscape_and_their_possible_significance<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(h)<\/sup> (99+) (PDF) Observations on Late Pleistocene Flooding of the Eurasian Continental Interior and Possible Alluvial Origin of Loess | Ronnie Gallagher – Academia.edu<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(i)<\/sup> Earth\u2019s Largest-Ever Lake Engulfed Europe and Asia 12 Million Years Ago | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net)<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

(j)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20221222092847\/https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/project\/The-evolution-of-Paratethys-the-lost-sea-of-Central-Eurasia<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(k)<\/sup>\u00a0 Strandlines on Azerbaijan’s Mud Volcanoes and coastal interior: New evidence of a catastrophic marine flood impacting the Ponto Caspian and Aral Sea regions with its implications to natural sciences and humankind (zin.ru)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

(l)<\/sup> Anthropomorphic Images in Azerbaijan\u2019s Landscape – Graham Hancock Official Website<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

(m)<\/sup> Observations on Late Pleistocene Flooding of the Eurasian Continental Interior and Possible Alluvial Origin of Loess – Graham Hancock Official Website<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(n)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/387091036_Cataclysmic_Flooding_of_the_Caspian_Sea_and_the_Implication_of_a_Global_Deluge<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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