{"id":505,"date":"2010-01-11T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T09:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=505"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:46:16","slug":"georges-poisson-amended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/georges-poisson-amended\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisson, Georges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Georges<\/strong><strong> P<\/strong><strong>oisson<\/strong><strong> (1861-1943) <\/strong>was a professor of Ethnology and President of the Prehistoric Society of France. He wrote a book<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\"><sup>512<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> on the subject of Atlantis in which he linked the original Atlanteans with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cro-magnon-man\/\">Cro-Magnon<\/a> man, who flourished 15,000 to 25,000 years ago. However, he contended that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/twelve-tribes-of-israel\/\">Plato\u2019s Atlantis<\/a> was a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bronze-age\/\">Bronze Age<\/a> civilisation and as such, could only be identified with Minoan <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/crete\/\">Crete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He also daringly contends that the Athenian-Atlantean conflict was a mythical transposition by Plato of a much earlier struggle between Cro-Magnons and their rivals, the Combe-Capelle people.<\/p>\n<p>It also appears that Poisson favoured the idea of a large landmass having existed in the Atlantic, offering relatively easy access, if not a complete landbridge, between Europe and America and that this landmass gradually disintegrated under the onslaught of rising sea levels, seismic activity and perhaps cosmic impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georges Poisson (1861-1943) was a professor of Ethnology and President of the Prehistoric Society of France. He wrote a book[512] on the subject of Atlantis in which he linked the original Atlanteans with Cro-Magnon man, who flourished 15,000 to 25,000 years ago. However, he contended that Plato\u2019s Atlantis was a Bronze Age civilisation and as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,63,32,1897],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bronze-age","tag-crete","tag-cro-magnon","tag-georges-poisson"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68064,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/68064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}