Discovery of Atlantis symbol in primivitiva ceramics of Jaén, Andalusia.
The find of these ceramics took place in the last century, nevertheless, as it has happened with other ceramics of ends of the Age of the Bronze and beginning of the Iron Age found in other points of Spain as the Carambolo, Seville, and Luzaga, Guadalajara, these enigmatic motives had gone unnoticed until the scriptologist and epigraphist Hispanic – Cuban Georgeos Díaz-Montexano noticed of his amazing seemed with the design of the architectural scheme of Atlantis, the principal city or acropolis of the Atlantis, in accordance with the description that it offers the same Plato in the dialogue of the Critias.
The symbol generally is composed by a circular island or central point that turns out to be surrounded by several concentric rings (between three and five mostly), and from the same center it divides one straight line or lightly wavy – as a channel – that spreads towards the exterior of the rings as it is possible to appreciate in the illustration that accompanies this news.
These ceramics jiense (from Jaen) were found exactly in a city where also it was possible to have stated the existence of a primitive circular concentric city under the current one. A city that, as the acropolis of the Atlantis, was alternating several circular pits to contain or to lead water with other rings of ground that were communicated between if by means of bridges. This circular concentric city apparently was inhabited from the Age of the Copper and during the whole Age of the Bronze until beginning of the Iron Age, according to the results obtained up to the date by means of the archaeological digs.
The site of Marroquíes Bajos, of whose central nucleus there are remains in the north zone of the modern city, he was organizing himself in five concentric circles. These were delimited by excavated pits or channels, that were canalizing the water that was coming from the skirts of the mount then to be distributed inside the rings up to the housings. The same we can see in the descriptions that Plato does on the functionality of the channels concerning the principal city of the Atlantis.
According to the investigator Díaz-Montexano, the Bronze Age chalcolithical city of “Marroquíes Bajos” it was built by the same design described by Plato. The archaeological digs have demonstrated that the principal nucleus was like a circular island surrounded with five pits (as five rings that were making a detour to the island Atlantis), whereas the diameter of the exterior ring has been calculated in approximately 1.900 meters. The Hispanic – Cuban points out that according to Plato the maximum breadth or diameter of five added rings was 11 stadiums, which multiplied by the average known of 177,6 meters by stadium the sum of 1.953,6 meters offers, scarcely approximately 54 meters of difference with regard to the maximum diameter of the rings of the city of Low Moroccans.
“There have been located five pits developed in concentric circles with lines of wall sometimes perpendicular to the pits that apparently a quite sure defensive system guarantees… The origin of the city of Jaén is the most ancient, so much, that although him despite a lot of, some historians think that it is the most ancient city of Europe, dated between the third and fourth millenium before our age. His first traces of population have been in the north part of the city, in the zone known as Marroquíes Bajos. In this zone that today represents the zone of expansion of the town, the remains were discovered seven years ago of what it has devoted itself being called the “Venice of the Neolithic” that is only a deposit of different epochs for more than 5 milleniums that has a studied extension of 15 hectares in which it has been studied as a city formed by concentric rings that were serving as defense the city it was watered by one of the biggest and more ancient works of civil engineering that is only the whole system of water channels that were serving for the irrigation and the human consumption.” David Ordóñez points in his “History of Jaén”.
“The acropolis of Antlantis – points Georgeos Díaz – had also five concentric circles: three of water of sea and two of ground. According to the archaeologists, these rings were delimited by excavated pits that were canalizing the water that was coming from the skirts of the mount (the same there says Plato of the channels that were making a detour to the acropolis of Atlantis) then to be distributed inside the rings up to the housings. It is a question of one of the more ancient works of engineering of those that news has. Whereas in the zone interpits, and sometimes on them, locate the constructions.”
Díaz-Montexano alludes also to the study of the teacher jienense Arturo Ruiz on these rings: “This apple sums up – points out Ruiz in his study – what was Moroccans Low in the Neolithic end, when the man domesticated the nature… There there was a town of big dimensions constructed from a scheme of concentric pits that were spreading in a network of regadíos. Possibly the first sample of control of the water …”
Francisca Hornos Mata, archaeologist Leader from “Departamento of Protection of the Historical Patrimony of the Delegation of the Commission of Culture of the Province of Jaén, thinks with major enthusiasm:
“The prehistoric establishment of Marroquíes Bajos for his extension and what we are discovering of his internal organization is something very novel in the Recent Prehistoric times of the Iberian Peninsula. In fact, it changes everything what till now he had written himself for this zone. These peoples of the Jaén of 4.000 years ago, lived concerning systems of fortification and water canalization: a series of concentric rings that with punctual variants consist of pits excavated in the road surface with diverse sections (in “U” and in “V”) reinforced of his internal side with palisades, walls of adobe or stone. Bastions and accesses have researched inside this system… Also it seems unquestionable that this prehistoric establishment expresses a high concentration so much of population as of being able”.
Why does the deposit jienense present these characteristics? The investigative Hispanic – Cuban points out that, according to Plato, the Acropolis of Atlantis was distant of the ‘thalattas’ (in Greek, `salty water’ or `sea-water’) only to approximately 50 stadiums, which would be approximately 8 or 9 km. The only way of being able to associate the primitive circular concentric city of Jaén with the Acropolis of Atlantis would be demonstrating that at the end of the Age of the Bronze the salty water of the sea was coming up to a distant point, approximately in approximately 9 kilometers of the current establishment of Marroquíes Bajos. Nevertheless, the place is in a too high point so that it could have been swallowed by a flood or tsunami.
“I believe – the expert supports – that the primitive concentric city of Jaén might demonstrate that this was the architectural boss used by certain peoples of Iberia during the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age, which are the same that Plato describes under the name of Atlantic, that is to say, settlers of the Atlantic coasts. The city of Marroquíes Bajos was built by these peoples that we might call (as it made it Plato) ‘atlantes’ or ‘Atlantic’; peoples of the Chalcolithic and of the Bronze Age of the Iberian Peninsula who not only lived in Andalusia, as it is deduced of the last finds in other places of Iberia like in the proper capital of Spain, Madrid”.
This way, up to the date, the circular concentric city of Marroquíes Bajos, Jaén, Andalusia, is the one that more comes closer – according to the investigator – the descriptions that there offers Plato of the principal city of Atlantis as for the architectural design and the measurements of the circular pits and other structures of canalization.
According to Díaz-Montexano, “…To assume that in a city as important as this, that also presents in his prehistoric and proto-historical phases an almost identical architectural design – even in the details – to the described by Plato in the Critias, appears a ceramics with a clear representation of the architectural scheme of the acropolis of Atlantis, and that all this is only a mere attentive conjunction of coincidences, against the most elementary common sense…”
It does not also look like a coincidence that only in Iberia there have discovered rests of ceramics of ends of the Age of the Bronze with these symbols that represent a scheme identical – or very similar – to that of the city of Atlantis, composed by several rings or concentric circles, and from whose center extends a line (as a channel) towards the exterior of the rings, coinciding with the Plato’s descriptions, really, a pictorial motive that Díaz-Montexano has named as “Concentric Rings and Channel”.
It does not also seem chance that only in Iberia are found remains of an ancient circular concentric city that was alternating circular pits of water with rings of ground on those that they were building and that were connected by means of bridges, as well as complex canalizations that were serving to bring the waters of the mountains; quite almost exactly equal to as it describes Plato in the Critias. Circular cities or with protection pit around someone of them are known in other places of Europe, but none as that of Jaén – with these so complex hydraulic characteristics , and so similar to the principal city of the Atlantis – not so ancient as the concentric circular city of Jaén.
Ceramics with concentric circles will be able to be in many places of the Mediterranean, belonging to other peoples as Greeks, Phoenicians and Etruscans, but ceramics with symbols of “Concentric Rings and Channel”, as the scheme of Atlantis, only they appear in Iberia as the investigative Hispanic – Cuban demonstrates, at least up to the date.
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