The van Oosten paper forms part of "Achilles’ Shield Decoded", which, inter alia, proposes the following:

New perspectives
There was a highly developed Atlantic culture older than the Egyptian pyramids

The circular Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean determined Odysseus’ route

Cause of the Trojan War was not the abduction of Helen, but a power struggle over tin

The 4 constellations on the shield of Achilles determined navigation on the ocean

Ithaca is the name for Tartessos, the present-day Huelva in southern Spain

Odysseus was in the Caribbean (island king of the winds) and America (Hades)

Troy is the name for the Grey Rock in the forest and Iktin, now St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall

The sailing instruction Calypso gave Odysseus could be followed on the Atlantic Ocean, but not on the Mediterranean Sea: there the ship would end up in the desert

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