The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We've been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago - amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this…mehr
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We've been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago - amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago - many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient "New World" cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected "Old World" cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the "Old World" in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the "New World"? America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
GRAHAM HANCOCK is the author of the major international non-fiction bestsellers Magicians of the Gods, The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, The Message of the Sphinx, Heaven's Mirror, Underworld and Supernatural, and of the epic adventure novels Entangled and War God. His books have sold more than seven million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty languages. His public lectures, radio and TV appearances, including two major TV series, Quest For The Lost Civilisation and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age, as well as his strong presence on the internet, have put his ideas before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker who raises resonant questions about humanity's past and about our present predicament.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 - Manitou : The Mystery of Serpent Mound 1. An enchanted realm 2. A journey in time 3. The dragon and the sun Part 2 - New World? : The Mystery of the First Americans 4. A past not so much hidden as denied 5. Message from mastodon 6. Millennia unaccounted for Part 3 - Genes: The Mystery in DNA 7. Siberia 8. Hall of Records 9. The strange and mysterious genetic heritage of Native Americans 10. A signal from the Dreamtime? Part 4 - Memes: The Amazon Mystery 11. Ghost cities of the Amazon 12. The ancients behind the veil 13. Black Earth 14. Gardening Eden 15. Sacred Geometry 16. The Amazon's own Stonehenge 17. The Vine of the Dead Part 5 - Stuff Just Keeps on Getting Older: The Mystery of the Primeval Mounds 18. Sun 19. Moon 20. The Poverty Point time machine 21. Glimpses behind the veil Part 6 - Equipped for Journeying: The Mystery of Death 22. Quietus? 23. The portal and the path 24. Astronomy and geometry in the afterlife Part 7 - Apocalypse Then: The Mystery of the Cataclysm 25. Eloise 26. Fire and ice 27. Cape Fear Part 8 - SURVIVE! : The Mystery of the Invisible Man 28. Hunter-gatherers and the lost civilization 29. Unknown unknowns 30. The key to earth's lost civilization Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Index References
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 - Manitou : The Mystery of Serpent Mound 1. An enchanted realm 2. A journey in time 3. The dragon and the sun Part 2 - New World? : The Mystery of the First Americans 4. A past not so much hidden as denied 5. Message from mastodon 6. Millennia unaccounted for Part 3 - Genes: The Mystery in DNA 7. Siberia 8. Hall of Records 9. The strange and mysterious genetic heritage of Native Americans 10. A signal from the Dreamtime? Part 4 - Memes: The Amazon Mystery 11. Ghost cities of the Amazon 12. The ancients behind the veil 13. Black Earth 14. Gardening Eden 15. Sacred Geometry 16. The Amazon's own Stonehenge 17. The Vine of the Dead Part 5 - Stuff Just Keeps on Getting Older: The Mystery of the Primeval Mounds 18. Sun 19. Moon 20. The Poverty Point time machine 21. Glimpses behind the veil Part 6 - Equipped for Journeying: The Mystery of Death 22. Quietus? 23. The portal and the path 24. Astronomy and geometry in the afterlife Part 7 - Apocalypse Then: The Mystery of the Cataclysm 25. Eloise 26. Fire and ice 27. Cape Fear Part 8 - SURVIVE! : The Mystery of the Invisible Man 28. Hunter-gatherers and the lost civilization 29. Unknown unknowns 30. The key to earth's lost civilization Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Index References
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