![]() ![]() "It immediately turns on my bullshit detector when somebody, instead of doing that, makes the announcement through a press release, a press conference, a web page or a documentary," Feder said. Meanwhile, Feder (the anthropologist at Central Connecticut State University) questioned why Merlin Burrows hadn't submitted its findings to a peer-reviewed journal, which would give other scientists the chance to vet the research. "These are the times of hunters and gatherers, rather than those of the creators and rulers of an extensive agricultural, cattle-breeding, maritime polity. "However, assuming the material is man-made (which is a big assumption), the date takes us, from a culture-history perspective, down to Palaeolithic and post-Palaeolithic times," Villarías-Robles told Live Science in an email. ![]() But, at least for this location, that date doesn't match up with an Atlantis-type society, he said. If the dating of the 10,000- to 12,000-year-old concrete specimens reported by Merlin Burrows is accurate, then those samples could be from the pre-Holocene formations, Villarías-Robles said. "Below these sediments are pre-Holocene sedimentary deposits and layers of fossilized sands that date from thousands of years earlier," said Juan José Villarías-Robles, study co-researcher and vice director of the Institute of Language Literature and Anthropology at the Center for Human and Social Sciences in Madrid. Researchers also found that Doñana National Park sits upon Holocene sediments that started to accumulate about 7,000 years ago. That study revealed that the park was above sea level during certain periods, including the Neolithic and the Copper ages. In a new study in the December issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, researchers found that humans lived in what is now Doñana National Park about 5,000 years ago, according to an analysis of pollens and microscopic remains in the area's sediment. It's no wonder southern Spain is a spot of interest, as people did live there long ago. And Elena Maria Whishaw, director of the Anglo-Spanish-American School of Archaeology, published the 1929 book " Atlantis in Andalucia," (Rider & Company) which hypothesized that the region was a colony of Atlantis. In " Atlantis Rising," National Geographic announced that the network had found evidence that Atlantis was located in Doñana National Park, as did a 2004 study in the journal Antiquity. Merlin Burrows isn't the first group to claim that Atlantis is located in southern Spain. And with that money, we want to support the archaeological community." Ancient remains "We want to make an awful lot of money out of it. "What we really want to do is we want to franchise the find," Blackburn said. Merlin Burrows and Ingenio Films have made a 2-hour documentary called "Atlantica" about the finding, and Blackburn said he expects the companies to make more documentaries. However, by press time, Blackburn hadn't said which methods the laboratory used to date the concrete. The company gave these samples to a materials-analysis laboratory in Italy, which dated them to between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, Blackburn said. Next, Merlin Burrows took samples of material - which is likely human-made concrete, Blackburn said - from the circle-shaped foundations and the possible temple ruins. "The Atlantis cities, which are very detailed in Plato's writing, are really there for everyone to see," Blackburn said. The team also found the remains of a long sea wall, as well as signs of a tsunami, which could be evidence of the cataclysmic event that drowned the society, Blackburn said. There, the team found several archaeological clues: large circles that were possibly the bases of ancient towers, the ruins of what the team claimed may be the Temple of Poseidon and a greenish-blue patina coating some of the ruins - all details that Plato included in his dialogues, Blackburn said. Text in these documents included Plato's descriptions that "in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together." Such descriptions led Merlin Burrows to the Spanish coast, near the Strait of Gibraltar, Blackburn said. "We won't share that in a public forum at this stage," Blackburn said, adding, however, that he expects that the writing will be submitted for scrutiny "in the fullness of time." They also looked at another text, but Blackburn won't say which one. The company's researchers chose to look for the site in Spain after reading Plato's two dialogues on Atlantis, Blackburn said. (Image credit: Shutterstock) What they found A bird's-eye view of Doñana National Park.
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