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in the general area of the present West Indian islands. This 

 large parent is and was called Antillia. There may have been 

 communicating islands in between. These two islands existed 

 until late Pleistocene times or up to about 25,000 years ago, 

 when the western island of Atlantis began to disintegrate. 

 Final disaster to Atlantis is timed at about 10,000 b.c. in con- 

 junction with many of the flood legends. Antillia persisted 

 until more recent geological times, and was supposed to have 

 subsided into roughly the present West Indian chain perhaps 

 as late as 2,000 b.c. 



Spence proceeds to make a case for the European and 

 American invasion of culture from an Atlantean source. He 

 quotes Dr. Farrer in his work on language to show that the 

 Basque tongue has no analogy to any other European lan- 

 guage, but does have a strong grammatical relationship with 

 aboriginal American languages. And he quotes the great 

 French authority Abbe Breuil on the refreshing influence of 

 new techniques on the Cro-Magnon or Aurignacian civiliza- 

 tion, and the smooth flint work of the Solutrians, and states 

 that the later Magdalenian art and culture in this area had 

 new contributions from some unknown source. The final 

 phase of this Spanish-French prehistoric culture, called Azil- 

 ian from the Mas D'Azil cave in Spain, is a culture that shows 

 a long period of development before it arrived in southwestern 

 Europe. Spence points out an Atlantean origin based on these 

 facts: The Azilians were always buried facing west. They were 

 a seafaring race using big flint fishhooks that indicated a deep- 

 sea occupation. And the date of their arrival along the Basque 

 coast coincides with Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis. 



And now the search to bound the foggy lands of Atlantean 

 culture jumps to America. To recapitulate, the Spence time- 

 table of migrations runs like this: end of the ice age, Cro- 

 Magnon, 23,000 B.C.; Magdalenian second migration, 14,000 

 B.C.; Azilian-Tardenoisian or third migration, 9,600 B.C.; and 



