{"id":24837,"date":"2014-09-26T08:08:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T07:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=24837"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:29:54","slug":"morrison-tony-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/morrison-tony-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrison, Tony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tony Morrison <\/strong>is probably best known for his definitive work on the Nazca Lines, <em>Pathways to the Gods<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\"><sup>1036<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><em>. <\/em>Tony and Marion Morrison have developed the <em>South American Pictures.com <\/em>website in order to show their extensive life-work.<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Unfortunately, the <em>southamericanpictures<\/em> website went offline but now, many of the image collections have been reassembled and are again available online<sup>(b)<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 1998 Morrison published a number of papers provocatively entitled <em>The Bolivian Atlantis<\/em><sup>(b-e)<\/sup><em>. <\/em>They cover familiar territory \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tiwanaku-tiahuanaco\/\">Tiwanaku<\/a>, Pumapunku, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/posnansky-arthur\/\">Posnansky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hans-schindler-bellamy\/\">Bellamy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/colonel-percy-harrison-fawcett-amended\/\">Fawcett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sykes-j-egerton-bill\/\">Sykes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/col-john-blashford-snell-updated\/\">Blashford-Snell<\/a>. This was the same year that <a href=\"#AllenJM\">Jim Allen<\/a> published his <em>Atlantis: The Andes Solution<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/a\/\"><sup>877<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>. Had Allen not done so, I suspect that Morrison might have produced a more detailed book himself as apparently he and a colleague, Mark Howell, had built up quite a dossier on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, Morrison did not mention the mysterious puquios of the Nazca region<sup>(f)<\/sup>, which, with the aid of satellite imagery<sup>(g)<\/sup>, have been shown to have been part of a sophisticated hydraulic system that supplied water to an extremely arid locality.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/nonesuchexpeditions.com\/south-american-pictures\/sap-archaeology-history-index.htm\">https:\/\/nonesuchexpeditions.com\/south-american-pictures\/sap-archaeology-history-index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nonesuchexpeditions.com\/South-American-Pictures\/sap-archaeology-history-index.htm\">https:\/\/www.nonesuchexpeditions.com\/South-American-Pictures\/sap-archaeology-history-index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(f)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickriver.com\/photos\/tags\/puquios\/interesting\/\">https:\/\/www.flickriver.com\/photos\/tags\/puquios\/interesting\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(g) <\/span><\/sup>(<em>BBC<\/em> April 8, 2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20160408-the-ancient-peruvian-mystery-solved-from-space\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20160408-the-ancient-peruvian-mystery-solved-from-space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Morrison is probably best known for his definitive work on the Nazca Lines, Pathways to the Gods[1036]. Tony and Marion Morrison have developed the South American Pictures.com website in order to show their extensive life-work.\u00a0Unfortunately, the southamericanpictures website went offline but now, many of the image collections have been reassembled and are again available [&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":[1096,3424,44,265,3176,3421,3422,3370,3423,4746,2619,510,3420],"class_list":["post-24837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arthur-posnansky","tag-blashford-snell","tag-bolivia","tag-egerton-sykes","tag-hans-schlindler-bellamy","tag-mark-howell","tag-nazca-lines","tag-percy-harrison-fawcett","tag-pumapunku","tag-puquios","tag-satellite-imagery","tag-tiwanaku","tag-tony-morrison"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837","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=24837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64549,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837\/revisions\/64549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}