Ozark Atlantis is F. K. Sterling’s name for a lost high-ground civilization he places not under the Atlantic, but on the Ozark Plateau—the oldest stable upland in the heart of North America.

In Stones, Bones and Forgotten Voyagers, the argument runs like this. Plato’s flood, dated near the end of the Younger Dryas around 9600 BC, drowned lowlands across the hemisphere. The Ozarks did not go under.

Their core, the St. Francois Mountains, had already stood as islands in ancient seas. At the close of the Ice Age they rose again above meltwater pouring down the Mississippi Embayment: caves, never-failing springs, game, and quartz country just south in the Ouachitas.

Survivors of a ruined world, Sterling says, climbed.

He does not treat those founders as ordinary refugees. He reads Osage star descent, Pawnee and Hopi sky teachers, Sumerian Anunnaki, and Genesis “sons of God” as one memory: Sky People who came down onto water-covered earth and began again on the plateau. Quartz, hot springs, and later UFO lore mark the same ground as a place of power. From that refuge, knowledge moved outward along the rivers—agriculture in the bluff shelters, cosmic art in Picture Cave, solar measure at Toltec, mortuary wealth at Spiro, Woodhenges at Cahokia—so the mound world is inheritance, not invention.

Genetics is the second pillar. Ancient North Eurasian ancestry, proven in the Mal’ta boy, links Ice Age Siberia to both Europeans and Native Americans. Windover’s long skulls, Population Y in Amazonia, and contested Solutrean and voyager trails (Fell, Gordon, Farley, Heyerdahl) are treated as renewals of an old connection, not proof that Native nations did not build their own monuments.

Ozark Atlantis is therefore a thesis, not a dig site: Atlantis as high ground, teachers who may not have been wholly human, and a heartland whose stones, bones, and myths still point home. Sterling asks readers to walk the bluffs and decide.

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