Bimini Road

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The so-called Bimini Road is located in the northwest of North Bimini, in the shallow water off today's coast.

The so-called Bimini Road , also known as the Bimini Wall , is an approx. 800 m long structure made of limestone blocks in the shallow water off today's west coast of the island of North Bimini, part of the Bahamas .

history

In 1957, the Franco-American inventor Dimitri Rebikoff , a pioneer in the development of underwater technology, was made aware of large stone blocks by local fishermen during a visit to Bimini, which are located in the coastal waters to the west of North Bimini in front of Paradise Point.

Rebikoff was the first to suggest an unnatural origin of this structure. This assumption was popularized in September 1968 by the marine biologist and Cayce supporter Joseph Manson Valentine , who examined the formation, which was now named Bimini Road , on his search for relics from Atlantis together with Robert Angove and with the freediver Jacques Mayol made a topic for the media.

Scientific evaluation

In the scientific discussion, the assumption that the structure at Paradise Point was a man-made facility met with rejection from the start. So is scientific consensus in the Altamerikanistik that the Bahamas until the 4th century AD by the.. Lucayan - Arawaks have been settled.

From a geological point of view, the stones were interpreted as a classic, pillow-shaped new beach rock formation in the context of a natural geological formation, i.e. as a geofact . This was the conclusion reached by four teams of specialist scientists in studies carried out between 1971 and 1980. The most exposed proponent of this view is the geologist Eugene A. Shinn , who led an investigation of the property on behalf of the US Geological Survey in the 1970s .

Alternative interpretations

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In the field of parasciences , the validity of the geofact thesis has always been questioned, but especially the quality of Shinn's work, which was carefully questioned early on and later met with further criticism.

The proponents of the assumption of an artificial character of the Bimini Road also refer to the success of their own field research. For example, after ten underwater expeditions, the first of which took place in 1974 , the American English studies professor David Zink expressed his conviction that the assumed megalithic components of the complex were organized by humans.

The anthropologist and underwater archaeologist William M. Donato and the Atlantis researcher Greg Little (a doctor of psychology) are also convinced after numerous expeditions that the formation could not be of natural origin. According to their own information, they also found other, previously unknown fragments, which were presumably exposed by Hurricane Wilma in 2005.

As far as the former function of the supposed facility in front of Paradise Point is concerned, no one in alternative research circles has long assumed that it was a street, as its popular name suggests, or the remains of a wall . Rather, it is mostly assumed today that it represents the remains of an old port facility, an assumption that Dimitri Rebikoff had already made in 1969.

However, there are quite different ideas about who built it. While Donato, Little et al. a. assume that they were members of a lost, ancient high culture, the writer and amateur historian Gavin Menzies hypothesizes in his controversial book 1421. When China discovered the world that it could have been built by stranded Chinese travelers.

literature

  • Ashley B. Saunders, History of the Bahamas - Bimini: a case study , Volume 1, New World Press, 1990.
  • Edgar Evans Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis , Warner Books, 1988. ISBN 0-446-35102-4 .
  • Gavin Menzies, 1421: The Year China Discovered America , Harper Perennial; 1st Perenn Edition, 2004. ISBN 0-06-054094-X .
  • David Zink, The Stones of Atlantis , Prentice Hall, 1978. ISBN 0-13-846923-7 .
  • Douglas G. Richards, Archaeological Anomalies in the Bahamas , in: Journal of Scientific Exploration , Vol. 2, No. 2, 1988, pp. 181-202.
  • Robert F. Marx & Dimitri Rebikoff, Atlantis at Last? , in: Argosy magazine , Vol. 369, No. December 6, 1969.
  • J. Manson Valentine, Archaeological Enigmas of Florida and the Western Bahamas , in: Muse News, Miami Museum of Science , Vol. 1, No. June 2, 1969.
  • J. Manson Valentine, Underwater Archeology in the Bahamas , in: Explorers Journal , New York, 1976.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ashley B. Saunders, History of Bimini , New World Press, 2000, pp. 45-53
  2. ↑ Michael Craton, Islanders in the Stream: From aboriginal times to the end of slavery , University of Georgia Press, 1992, pp. 3 ff.
  3. ↑ See: W. Harrison, Atlantis undiscovered; Bimini, Bahamas , Nature. Vol. 230, no. 5292, 1971, pp. 287-289
  4. ^ John A. Gifford, 1973, A description of the geology of the Bimini Islands, Bahamas , University of Miami, Florida, p. 88
  5. ^ Mahlon M. Ball and John A. Gifford, Investigation of submerged beachrock deposits off Bimini, Bahamas , Research Reports National Geographic Society. Vol. 12., 1980
  6. ↑ Eugene A. Shinn (see below)
  7. ^ EA Shinn, Atlantis: Bimini Hoax , in: Sea Frontiers , 24: 130, 1978
  8. ↑ M. McKusick and EA Shinn, Bahamian Atlantis reconsidered , Nature, Vol. 287, no. 5777, 1980, pp. 11-12
  9. ^ EA Shinn, A Geologist's Adventures with Bimini Beachrock and Atlantis True Believers , in: The Secptical Inquirer 28, 2004
  10. ^ William R. Corliss , Good-bye to the bimini wall and road? , in: Science Frontiers , No. 4: July 1978 (Internet version accessed: June 3, 2013)
  11. ^ Greg Little, Gene Shinn's Bimini Flim-Flam Scam ( September 19, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive ) , in: Alternate Perceptions Magazine, No. 135, April 2009 (Internet version accessed: June 3, 2013)
  12. ↑ Gavin Menzies, 1421. When China discovered the world , Droemer, Munich, 2003, ISBN 3-426-27306-3

Coordinates: 25 ° 45 ′ 54 ″  N , 79 ° 16 ′ 48 ″  W.