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“Graham Phillips has made a powerful case for advanced prediluvian civilization in Europe. In fact, the sunken kingdom of Doggerland, only recently discovered at the bottom of the North Sea, resembles in many ways the lost world called Atlantis by Plato. Phillips does a great job of showing the connections between the mythic megalithic culture we have dreamed about for many centuries and one we had long forgotten but which may be the true homeland of the British people. A wonderful and intriguing read.” ―
J. Douglas Kenyon, author of Ghosts of Atlantis: How the Echoes of Lost Civilizations Influence Our“Graham Phillips’s well-researched, well-written book neatly places a number of missing pieces in the puzzle of the Orkney megalithic tradition and the broader ancient region of Doggerland. He presents these in context with a range of informative viewpoints on prediluvian cultures including Atlantis, Mu, and Lemuria.” ―
Laird Scranton, author of The Mystery of Skara Brae, Sacred Symbols of the Dogon, and Point of Origi
Chrissie Ann –
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Wulf V –
An interesting work which discusses the theory of a lost megalithic civilisation to the north of the Orkneys which may have been responsible for the introduction and spread of the megalithic culture into the British Isles. Much of the book, however discusses the legends surrounding Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria, as well as verifiable historical floods in the ancient past. When it came to discussing the actual focus of the book, NORTH Doggerland, very little information, in my opinion was given, and a lot of repetition about the general pattern of stone circles, king stones, stone avenue and mounds.I would have liked to have known more about the actual discoveries on the sea bottom and whether any further research was, is and will be carried out. I would also point out that the title of the book is very misleading as it has nothing to do with the former landmass, Doggerland, situated between England and Europe but a much smaller area known as North Doggerland off the far north of Scotland. The title should, in my opinion, be changed to reflect this!I am also disappointed that there was no clear attempt to discuss any potential connection with the real Doggerland and the recent discoveries made there. I think that was a lost opportunity. There is scope here for a much bigger book which discusses both these landmasses, their civilisations and potential connections.I have removed one star for the misleading title and another for the scanty information on North Doggerland.On a more positive note I found the photographic plates most stunning. 5 stars for the photography!
Cerys Chandler –
Very misleading title with barely any references to Doggerland at all. Do not recommend.
G –
This book carefully examines the culture that built Stonehenge and convincingly argues that it can only have begun on an island to the north of Britain shortly after the ice age. The author investigates many aspects of the stone-circle-building people of the British Isles and offers some remarkable new theories concerning its many mysteries. He also explores early civilizations worldwide, revealing how ancient flood myths began with rising sea levels after the ice age ended. The Mystery of Doggerland seems to have received hostile reviews from climate change deniers. Don’t let this put you off. This is a fascinating and well-researched investigation.
Amazon Customer –
The origins of the first civilizations and their sudden demise have always been a mystery. The book “The Mystery of Doggerland” sheds light on early settlements around the world, with a specific focus on an island that used to exist northeast of Scotland. This island was home to an early culture that flourished before being destroyed by a catastrophic tidal wave. The book provides an easy-to-understand analysis of a complex subject.
Deborah Benstead –
A must for anyone interested in ancient mysteries. Graham Phillips investigates how early civilizations were destroyed by climate change. Climate change deniers really don’t like this book, neither do stuck up archeologists who are clearly jealous. But I loved it! I thought it was informative and such a great read. It is written in a very easy to read and engaging way. Whereas books like this written by archeologists are usually dryer than the Sahara.
P. Falconer –
If you are looking for any substantive information about Doggerland you are likely to be disappointed. The author attempts to distance himself from fringe research related to Atlantis and Lemuria while simultaneously contradicting himself when it comes to the importance of oral traditions and myths. He makes no attempt to show how scholars have been consistently dogmatic in denying the possibility of an ancient civilisation, in spite of recent revelations regarding Gobekli Tepe. There is almost no reference to Doggerland in the whole book outside of a couple of passing mentions. If you are looking for an earth shattering revelatory experience about the possibility of a lost civilisation you won’t find it here. The focus is largely on a small portion of sunken land near Orkney which the author refers to as Fairland, which while very interesting, is not sufficiently substantial to fill more than a single chapter. The rest of the book treads very well trodden and safe ground, as if the author is more concerned about maintaining his reputation among his peers rather than challenging the dogmas inherent to archaeology and ancient civilisation research.
John Howie –
The main theme of the book is that Doggerland inhabitants provided ‘the know-how’ which was subsequently used by later cultures but provides no definitive information to support this. It is far to general in its approach and contains no primary research (and very few secondary) references. Despite its publicity it does not add anything to already known information. Disappointing!
Susan –
What a mess!
Speaking as an archaeologist, it would take me a whole separate book to detail what is wrong with this book. It is riddled with small errors, large errors and lapses in logic, but I will focus on only a few here to give you a general idea of the issues. First and foremost, the entire book is based on a culture that literally doesn’t exist. First, the archaeological evidence for human activity in Doggerland has so far been confined to what is known as the Mesolithic, a time of hunter-gatherer societies. The work the author cites, suggesting that there might have been a stone circle there, was preliminary when it was done in 2011 and so far there has been no further suggestion of what their findings might prove to be. So the idea that there might be more there (on what the author inexplicably calls “Fairland”) is not speculative, it is pure imagination based on zero evidence. Second, there is no “megalithic culture”, there are instead many different cultures who use large stones structures for burial and other aspects of their ritual lives. As the author himself points out, these are widespread throughout western and northern Europe, and cherry picking some of them and using an uppercase M doesn’t make them any more a “culture.” That’s like calling us the “Cremation culture” because some of us cremate the dead, or the “Skyscraper culture” because we build big buildings. It doesn’t represent all of what makes us a culture. Third, all cultural ideas start somewhere, and they don’t all leave obvious archaeological evidence for where they came from. At some point a number of Neolithic communities started using large stones to structure their ritual lives. This doesn’t have to have “come from” anywhere, humans are perfectly capable of coming up with new ideas all on their own. If it’s a good one, other communities might start doing it too, but there’s no guarantee that we will see evidence of this process in the archaeology. And by the way, no archaeologist would call a Neolithic village a “first city” because it isn’t one.While the author does compile a fair amount of data and his physical descriptions of the sites are pretty good (though he uses some old data about some of them), he clearly has no deep understanding of archaeology, how archaeological sites are formed, how archaeological interpretations are made, or how archaeologists use evidence. One example—archaeological dating is only precise to, at best, about a 50 year period, and usually more than that. So when the author says there are several sites that date to around 3000 BCE we can’t be sure that this doesn’t cover a period of several hundred years. In that sense, to say that these sites appeared “suddenly” around 3000 BCE doesn’t make sense since we can’t know exactly when any of them was constructed except that it was during a window of a perhaps a few centuries.I could go on but there is a lot that is wrong here. Read this book if you want to get some decent physical descriptions at a number of megalithic sites, but don’t believe the interpretations, they are simply a mess.
Linda R. –
No substance BORING
This book is not worth the paper it was printed on. Mr Phillips weaves a bunch of already know theories into nothing. Where are the facts ? There is plenty of archaeological and scientific facts known about Doggerland that he doesn’t even mention. Pure gobbely gook. Why not say that Bigfoot is from Atlantis or possibly Doggerland. Rubbish