{"id":23393,"date":"2014-02-23T07:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T07:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=23393"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:30:13","slug":"cohane-john-philip-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cohane-john-philip-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohane, John Philip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Philip Cohane<\/strong> is an American archaeologist with Irish ancestry who published\u00a0 <i>The Indestructible Irish<\/i><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\"><sup>1254<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><i>\u00a0<\/i> in 1969, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Key.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30927\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Key-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Key\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Key-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The-Key.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>which included a proposed Mediterranean origin for the Irish. This was followed a few years later by <i>The Key<\/i><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">0971<\/a>]<\/sup><i>, <\/i>in which he proposes a form of hyperdiffusion based on his view of global linguistic connections. If he was on thin ice with <i>The Key, <\/i>in my opinion, he fell through it with his third offering in 1977, <i>Paradox: The Case for the Extraterrestrial Origin of Man <\/i><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">1250<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>The Key, which has a Preface by Professor Cyrus H. Gordon,<\/i> Cohane touches on the subject of Atlantis when he claims that <i>\u201cmuch of Donnelly\u2019s research tends to support the major premise of this book\u201d <\/i>(p23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Philip Cohane is an American archaeologist with Irish ancestry who published\u00a0 The Indestructible Irish[1254]\u00a0 in 1969, which included a proposed Mediterranean origin for the Irish. This was followed a few years later by The Key[0971], in which he proposes a form of hyperdiffusion based on his view of global linguistic connections. If he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[595,108,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-23393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-extraterrestrials","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-john-philip-cohane","tag-the-key"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66045,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393\/revisions\/66045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}