Atlantis? Real, fiction or both ....

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There is strong evidence for a very long drought across North America which led to the collapse and abandonment of settled cultures. The Navaho rock communities are the best know examples, but the Mississippi river basin is littered with mound settlement from around that period.

America has very long climate cycles measured in centuries, plenty of time for agricultural communities to thrive before been wiped out by drought.

However I don't think there is any strong evidence for a lost high culture in North America and if there were it would have been found by now.

silliussoddius

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Ok, so are we officially in Hancock mode?

The language thing shouldn’t be a shock as the Turkic family (previously known as Altaic) covers a massive region from Turkey through Siberia and almost as far as the Korean Peninsula. This sounds cool as Turkey is far away from the US and the name gives the suggestions of the language family be named after the country. When things like this are brought up people try to create a direct link between both regions instead of looking for common ancestry, which in this case ties with what is known about the land bridge migration.