Page references in italics refer to illustrations.
Africa, and the evolution of man 82, 85–6, 94–5, 103, 106–7, 115
agriculture, and culture 129, 131
alchemy and Boyle and Newton 212–15 and modern science 215–17 origins 196, 199, 200–206 technical 211–12 and Zosimus of Panopolis 208–11, 218–19
Alexander the Great 193–4
Alvin (submersible) 40–41
Amanniyazov, Professor 20
Amon-Ra 194
amphibians, and evolutionary theory 30–31, 32
Andel, Tjeerd Van 132
animals, classification 27
Antarctic, a site for Atlantis? 155–6, 162–3
Aquinas, Thomas 207
Aristotle 206–7
artefacts, human 2–3 in ancient rock or coal 3–14 and culture 12–13 and early man in Europe 107–12 and early man in North America 104–6 from the world’s first town 118
Artephius 217
Ashmole, Elias 219
Atlantic Ocean, a site for Atlantis? 139, 153–4, 156–61
Atlantis 137–63 refugees flee to Egypt 163–4
australopithecines 96 humans descended from? 81–99, 100–101 Lucy 80–83, 95–6, 97, 98
Austria, artefact found in coal 13–14
Azores, and Atlantis 156–61
Bangweulu, Lake 62
Barnaby, Frank 216
Bauval, Robert 162, 164, 181, 182, 183–4, 188, 189
belief systems 206–7
Bernath, Stephen 116
Beyond Natural Selection (R. Wesson) 31, 34, 36
Bloxham, Arnall 237
boats, development of 121
body form, stability of 28
bones in ancient rock/coal 15–16, 113–15 butchered by early tools 108–10
Bonifay, Eugène 111
Book of the Dead, The 191–2, 202, 204, 224–5
Books of Hermes Trismegistus 195, 196–7, 205, 218
Bousfield, Edward 50
Boxberger, Leo von 61
Boyle, Robert 212–15
Breasted, J. H. 169
Breuil, Henri 112–13
Brewster, Sir David 13
Bronze Age cultures, and a Mediterranean Atlantis 144, 145–53
Budge, Sir E. A. W. 169
butchering, ancient 108–10, 111
‘Cadborosaurus’ 47–51
California, ‘Gold Rush’ 3
Capellini, Professor 108, 109, 111
Carcharodon megalodon (shark) 42–4, 46
Çatal Hüyük, civilization at 117–19, 127–8, 133, 134, 135, 148
Cavallari, Francesco 200–201
cave paintings of boats 121 dinosaurs depicted in? 71–2 and writing 131
chain, gold, in a piece of coal 10–12
‘Champ’ 53
Champlain, Lake 52–3
Champlain, Samuel de 53
Chaos Theory, and evolution 36–9
chaousarou 53
Chavaillon, J. 115
Christianity 207
civilization origins of 117–36 see also culture
Cleopatra (alchemist) 219
coal, human artefacts found in 10–12, 13–14
coelacanths 44–6
Coffin Texts, The 191, 192, 204
Congo, relict dinosaurs? 57–61, 65–70
creatures, mysterious aquatic 40–55 on land 55–6, 70 living dinosaurs? 57–78
Crete and Atlantis 146–50 early colonization 134, 135
Critias 141
Critias (Plato) 141
crocodiles, giant 70
cryptozoology 46–7 see also creatures, mysterious
culture 2 development of an urban culture 119–21, 131–2 and gold artefacts 12–13 sudden advances in 128–9, 131–2 see also civilization
Dalai Lama 220–22
Danakil Desert and Highlands 94–5
Darwin, Charles, theory of evolution 23–5, 32, 34, 39
Deepstar 4000 (submersible) 41
Deucalion 132
dinosaurs 1–2 fossil footprints 17–20 man existing before/with 11, 13, 17–20 still extant? 57–78
Diocletian 208
Dobbs, Betty 214
Drosophila, and evolutionary theory 32
dwarf animals 54
Egypt, ancient alchemy 196, 208–11 ancient texts 181, 190–93, 195–9, 224 a cultural melting pot 204 dinosaurs still extant in? 70–71 links with Greece 193–6, 202–4 pyramids 185, 190 and reincarnation 224–5 see also Giza complex
Elawar, Imad 231–4
England, early man in 107–8, 111–12
Ethiopia and the origins of man 85, 94–5, 106, 115 pterosaurs still extant in? 74
Europe and the last Ice Age 123–4, 132 prehistoric tools in 107–13
evolution and Chaos Theory 36–9 Darwin’s theory of 23–5, 32, 39 and the fossil record 1, 25–32 of man 80–99 and natural selection 32 and problems with the origin of species 24–36
extinct creatures, still exist? 40–79
Finnaeus, Orestius 155
fish, and evolutionary theory 30
Flem-Arth, Rand and Rose 155, 156
flint tools 112
flood see sea level
footprints, fossil 16–20, 97–8, 107
Forbidden Archaeology (Cremo and Thompson) 102
fossils and the age of man see man, age of human bones in Ethiopia 94–5, 106 ‘living’ 44–6 and the theory of evolution 1, 25–32, 33, 35
France development of shelters 120 early man in 110, 111, 112
Fraser, Peter 206
Gabon, dinosaurs still extant in? 63–4
Geber 212
genetic code, randomly evolved? 35–6
Germany, development of culture 120
Gilbert, Adrian 162
Giza complex 166, 185–90 age 162–84 astronomical connections 180–84, 187–8 Great Pyramid 180, 186–7 Sphinx 163, 165–76, 177, 179, 183
gold and alchemy 212 alloys 12 and culture 12–13 gold chain in a piece of coal 10–12 gold plates in funerary mounds 201–2
gold mines, and human artefacts 3–7, 8–10
‘Gold Rush’, California 3
Gould, Stephen Jay 24, 25, 30, 34, 35
Greece Atlantis near see Thera earliest settlers 134–6 and the last Ice Age 125, 132–3 links with Egypt 193–6, 202–4 Plato’s description of 150 and a world-wide flood 126–7, 132
Hagelund, Captain 51
Hancock, Graham 162, 164, 183–4
Hassan, Selim 171
Hehr, Frederick 14
Hermes Trismegistus 195
hieroglyphs 179–80
Hittites 152
hominids fossil 80, 81, 82, 94–5 see also australopithecines
Homo spp. 83, 87, 107 see also man
horses and evolutionary theory 28–9 small 55
Houses of Life 192–3
Hoyle, Fred 36
humans see man
Huxley, Sir Julian 24
Huxley, T. H. 23
hypnosis 236–41
Ice Age(s) and culture 119–21 flood following the last 124–8, 157, 159 last 121, 122–4
In the Wake of Sea-serpents (B. Heuvelmans) 47
Italy early man in 108–10, 113–15 and the post-Ice Age flood 123–4
James, T. G. H. 170
Johanson, Donald 80, 81, 83, 95–6,97, 101
Kali-Yuga 22
Khaiyr, Lake 52
King, Clarence 7–8
kongamato 73
Kovdriavtsev, V. 161
Labynkyr, lake of 52
Laetoli footprints 97–9, 102, 107
lakes, living fossils in? 52–3
lamas, and reincarnation 220–22
Leakey, Richard 83–4, 96, 101, 115
Levinton, Jeffrey 28
life, formation 1
Likouala swamps, dinosaurs still extant in? 57–61, 65–70
Locke, John 214
Lorenz, Edward 37
Lucy (an australopithecine) 80–81, 82, 83, 87, 95–6, 97, 98
Lumley, Henry de 120
Maadi 176–9
Mackal, Roy 57, 59, 63 expeditions 65–70
man ancestors 80–99, 100–101, 106–7 earliest examples of 113–16 early man in Europe 107–12 early man in North America 103–6 fossil footprints 97–8 human traits which defy evolution 87–8 origins of civilization 117–36
man, age of 2 and ancient artefacts 2, 3–15, 116 and ancient writings/traditions 22, 102 and fossil bones in ancient rock/ coal 15–16, 113–15 and fossil footprints 16–20, 97–8 and fossil hominids 85, 99 and fossil shoe prints 20–22
maps, and the site of Atlantis 155, 158
mastodons 138 teeth 7, 122, 123
mbilintu 61
Mediterranean area during the last Ice Age 123–4 entrance 160 was Atlantis part of? 145–53
‘Megamouth’ sharks 41–2
Mellaart, James 117–18
Melland, Frank 73
Menkaure (pharaoh) 167
Mesopotamia 179
Mexico, unknown creatures in? 77 mines artefacts found in 3–7, 8–10 bones found in 15–16
Minoan culture 147
mokele-mbembe 59, 60–62, 64–8, 71, 72
monkeys, proboscis monkeys 90
Morrisonville chain 10–12
Mortensen, Bodil 178
Nahuel Huapi, Lake 52
‘Nahuelito’ 52
nail, discovered in a rock 4, 13
National Geographic (magazine) 98, 99, 101
natural selection 23, 32, 34 and human evolution 86
Nature (magazine) 101
Neolithic civilization 117–18
Neugebauer, Otto 181–2
Newton, Sir Isaac 214–15
North America bones found in coal mines 15 early man in 103–6 fossil footprints 17–20 fossil shoe prints 21–2 human artefacts in ancient rock or coal 3–12, 14 Ice Ages 105, 122 pterodactyls still extant in? 75–7
obsidian 118
‘Ogopogo’ 52
O’Hanlon, Redmond 68
Okanagan, Lake 52
On the Track of Unknown Animals (B. Heuvelmans) 46
Oreopithecus ape 15
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, The (Darwin) 23
Origins Reconsidered (R. Leakey) 101
Oxnard, Charles 100
Palestine, and the Sphinx 179
Paluxy river footprints 18–20
Parker, R. A. 182
Pausanias 152
pestles, stone 8
Phenanthropus mirabilis 17
Philosopher’s Stone 212, 214, 218–19
Physical and Mystical Matters (Bolus) 205
Pindar 151–2
plank, wooden, excavated xi–xiii
plants, and evolutionary theory 30
Plato and Atlantis 140–41, 143–4, 145, 149, 150, 153–4, 155–7 and a great flood 126–7
Pliny 152
Porphyry 209
Powell, James 57, 59, 63–5 expeditions 65–9
primates 2
pteranodon 76
pterosaurs 76–8 pterodactyl 73–5
pygmy animals 54
Pyramid Texts, The 181, 190, 191, 192, 204
pyramids 185, 190 at Giza see Giza complex
Pythagoras 202–4, 205, 207, 208
Ragazzoni, Giuseppe 113–15
Red Crag formation (Suffolk) 107–8, 111–12
‘red earth’ 213–14
‘red mercury’ 215–17
‘red powder’ 213
Reid, John 20
Romania, development of permanent shelters 120
Rousseau, Jacques 106
Runnels, Curtis 132
Russia, and ‘red mercury’ 215–17
Saïs, temples of 137
Sanford, John 105
savanna, evolution of man on the 84–6, 89, 92
Schindel, David 24
Schoch, Robert 172, 173, 174, 175
science, and prejudice 229
Scotland, human artefacts found in ancient rock 13, 14
sea-level, rise after the last Ice Age 121–2, 124–8, 157, 159
sea-serpents 46–51
‘serpent-birds’ 77–8
sharks 41–4
shelters, and early man 120
shoe prints, fossil 20–22
Simonds, A. C. 74
sloths 34
Smithsonian Institution 5, 8, 16, 17
Spain, early man in 111
species, origin of 24–36
Sphinx 163, 165–76, 177, 179, 183
Stahl, Barbara 32–4
Stanley, Steven 25
Starsjön, Lake 52
stegosaurus 68
Stein, USS (ship) 40
submersibles, and sea ‘monsters’ 40–41
Table Mountain (California), artefacts from 6–10, 14
Taylor, Stan 18
Thera, as a site for Atlantis 146–50
Thompson, Richard 22, 101–2, 116
Thurii 200
time, man’s concept of 129–30
tools 2 prehistoric tools in Europe 107–12
town, world’s first see Çatal Hüyük
‘Transfiguration Texts’ 192
Trojan War 150–51
tuataras 78–9
Turkey site for Atlantis see Tantalis world’s first town see Çatal Hüyük
Tuttle, Russell 98
United States see North America
vertebrates, evolution 33
Vu Quang ox 55
West, John Anthony 162, 170, 171
whales bones butchered by early tools 108–10 swallowing strange creatures 50
Wilberforce, Bishop 23
writing, primitive 131
Zambia, dinosaurs still extant in? 62, 73
zeuglodonts 54–5
Zimbabwe, pterosaurs still extant in? 73–4
Zosimus of Panopolis 208–11, 218–19
Zuckerman, Lord 98