{"id":3172,"date":"2010-06-07T10:43:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T10:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/erikson-george\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T07:55:15","slug":"erikson-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/erikson-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Erikson, George *"},"content":{"rendered":"

George <\/strong>E<\/strong>rikson <\/strong>is an anthropologist and the co-author with Ivar Zapp<\/a> of a book [<\/sup>244<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup>that promotes the idea of a connection between Atlantis and Central America<\/a>. There is a recording of an interview with Erikson available on the Internet(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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In 2006, Erikson was employed by National Geographic<\/em> to assist with a documentary entitled Atlantis: Is it Real?<\/em>(<\/sup>b<\/sup>)<\/sup> The documentary itself was pedestrian, ending on a fairly sceptic note(<\/sup>c<\/sup>)<\/sup>. Erikson’s contribution focused on his claim that Maya civilisation has been influenced by refugees from Atlantis! In my opinion, he was not convincing.<\/p>\n

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(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> George Erikson (archive.org)<\/a>
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(<\/sup>b<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.dcourier.com\/news\/2006\/oct\/02\/atlantis-theory-by-local-anthropologist-makes-nat\/ (subscribers only) *<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=atlantis%3A+Is+it+Real%3F&atb=v175-4__&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXIXJpxjmrLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Erikson is an anthropologist and the co-author with Ivar Zapp of a book [244] that promotes the idea of a connection between Atlantis and Central America. There is a recording of an interview with Erikson available on the Internet(a).   In 2006, Erikson was employed by National Geographic to assist with a documentary entitled […]<\/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":[594,455,454,34,1694],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-central-america","tag-george-erikson","tag-ivar-zapp","tag-maya","tag-national-geographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","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=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63130,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/63130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}