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In his Timaeus and Critias dialogues, Plato wrote of two ancient civilizations that flourished more than 9, 000 years before his time. Socrates accepted the account as true, and modern archaeological techniques may yet prove him right.In Plato, Prehistorian, Mary Settegast takes us from the cave paintings of Lascaux to the shrines of Çatalhöyük, demonstrating correspondences both to Plato's tale and to the mystery religions of antiquity. She t...

A synthesis of classical and archaeological scholarship, this book explores the reality of Plato's two ancient civilisations.

The tumultuous changes that took place around the Mediterranean in 6300 BC are seen here through the eyes of a boy who was born into a family of hunter-foragers in northern Turkey. While still young, Tulirane is taken from his family and forced to live as a slave among the obsidian masters of Çatalhöyük (Bhelsakros in our story), a "town" of some 8, 000 people that has only become more baffling as archaeological technologies have become more p...

Now in paperback -- a groundbreaking effort to find meaning in the disintegration of Western culture by looking through the lenses of economics, philosophy, art, physics, ecology, and spirituality.