{"id":28963,"date":"2015-11-21T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T09:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=28963"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:22:29","slug":"cazeau-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cazeau-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Cazeau & Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles J.<\/strong> C<\/strong>azeau<\/strong> & Stuart D. Scott<\/strong>, Jnr <\/strong>were Associate Professors of Geology and Anthropology respectively, at Buffalo’s State University of New York. They are the authors of Exploring the Unknown<\/em>[<\/sup>0878<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>, in which they sceptically examine some of the mysteries that have been most popular with the general public. An excerpt from their book is available online(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Atlantis features in this collection, with a review of some of the best-known theories. However, the authors seemed constrained by Sprague deCamp’s warning[<\/sup>0194<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> that “you cannot change all the details of Plato’s story and still claim to have Plato’s story.”<\/em> Consequently, they have accepted Plato’s very early date for the demise of Atlantis, in spite of the fact that it conflicts with both archaeology and common sense.<\/p>\n

The result is that Caseau & Scott concluded that the Atlantis narrative includes a distorted memory of the global flooding that followed the last Ice Age.<\/a>\u00a0However, they ignore the fact that the retreat of the Ice Age glaciers raised sea levels<\/a> quite gradually, if erratically, and that Plato’s account of the inundation of Atlantis describes it taking place over a day and a night as a result of earthquakes.<\/p>\n

(a) <\/sup>https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200925184903\/https:\/\/www.jfk-online.com\/exploring.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles J. Cazeau & Stuart D. Scott, Jnr were Associate Professors of Geology and Anthropology respectively, at Buffalo’s State University of New York. They are the authors of Exploring the Unknown[0878], in which they sceptically examine some of the mysteries that have been most popular with the general public. An excerpt from their book is […]<\/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":[2259,4296,120,4298,132,2681,3591,4297],"class_list":["post-28963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-charles-j-cazeau","tag-ice-age","tag-jnr","tag-plato","tag-sea-levels","tag-sprague-decamp","tag-stuart-d-scott"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963","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=28963"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65982,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions\/65982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}