Plato, Prehistorian

Mary Settegast was a contemporary American scholar and author, with graduate degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. Her work as an independent scholar was primarily focused on the study and interpretation of culture and religion from Paleolithic to modern times. Her other publications include When Zarathustra Spoke: The Reformation of Neolithic Culture and Religion and Mona Lisa's Mustache: Making Sense of a Dissolving World.

'A highly original and completely fascinating look at the shore between myth and history.'--William Irwin Thompson, author of The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light'Fascinating and challenging. . . A useful, well-documented, and courageous effort to break away from the unilinear paradigm and to propose a new framework for the data of the Holocene.'-- J.V. Luce, Professor of Classics, Trinity College, University of Dublin'A gradual revolution is under way which will have far-reaching consequences and this book is the valuable tool in that process. It was Plato who wrote about Atlantis first, he got it from his grandfather Solon when in Egypt. This book looks at the references to Timaeus and Critaeus and links it to archeaology examining in detail the links. It cogently argues the case for the mythic histories to be in fact not fable but fact. A book of scholarly clarity to jog our sense of historic complacency.'-- Baelder Pan-European Journal'Settegast's unbiased approach contrasts with the usual process of automatically imposing modern standards on Plato’s account. . . well worth considering as part of a new model for the period from 10,000-5,000 BC.'-- J.L. Benson, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, University of Massachusetts'The evidence [Settegast] assembles is exhaustive, multi-disciplinary, and provocative. Her scholarship is solid and meticulously referenced; the conclusions are balanced; the prose is lucid and jargon-free. A valuable and original work.'-- John Anthony West, author of The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt