[Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England, 2nd millenium BC]
Once Atlantean influence is granted, many things can be seen as its offshoots,or as relics and evocations of the lost culture. Massive stonework at Cuzco in Peru has been explained as Atlantean, as have the tall statues in Mexico usually ascribed to the pyramid-building Toltecs. A fact that has been urged in favor of such opinions is that pre-Columbian art does offer human images which are not Native American-- faces suggesting Africa, and men with European-type features and beards. Though North America has nothing like these, and no pyramids either, it does have very large earth mounds, and the mound-builders too have been drawn into the Atlantologists' framework.
In the Old World, artifacts and sculptures that do not fit
acknowledged patterns have been construed similarly. While serious
researchers have questioned the megalithic monuments of Europe as
having their source in Atlantis, enthusiasts have been much more liberal
and credited Atlantean colonists with building Stonehenge. While it is
not like anything else that has been given such an origin, Stonehenge
is admittedly unique among megaliths in its architectural style,
and its use of stones that are shaped and fitted together. The sense
that it must be the product of some mysterious significant agency is of
long standing; legends far older than Atlantology attribute it to
Titans, giants, the wizard Merlin, or the Devil. Given an Atlantean
Stonehenge, plus the well-known conception of its being a temple
of the Celtic Druids, it was a logical step to point to the Druids themselves
as inheritors and transmitters of Atlantis' Ancient Wisdom.
Toltec Statues, Pyramid B, Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
Colossal Head, Olmecs, Mexico, c.1000 BC
Bust of Lady of Elche, Alicante, c. 400 BC
Mask of Aztecs White God, Quetzalcoatl