America before: the key to Earth's lost civilization
(Book)
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"? This is a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
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Hancock, G. (2019). America before: the key to Earth's lost civilization. First edition. New York, St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hancock, Graham. 2019. America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization. New York, St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hancock, Graham, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hancock, Graham. America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization. First edition. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2019.
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505 | 0 | |a I: Manitou: the mystery of Serpent Mound. An enchanted realm -- A journey in time -- The dragon and the sun -- II: New World? The mystery of the first Americans. A past not so much hidden as denied -- Message from a mastodon -- Millennia unaccounted for -- III: Genes: the mystery in DNA. Siberia -- Hall of records -- The strange and mysterious genetic heritage of Native Americans -- A signal from the dreamtime? -- IV: Memes: the Amazon mystery. Ghost cities of the Amazon -- The ancients behind the veil -- Black Earth -- Gardening Eden -- Sacred geometry -- The Amazon's own Stonehenge -- The vine of the dead -- V: Stuff just keeps on getting older: the mystery of the Primeval Mounds. Sun -- Moon -- The poverty point time machine -- Glimpses behind the veil -- VI: Equipped for journeying: the mystery of death. Quietus? -- The portal and the path -- Astronomy and geometry in the afterlife -- VII: Apocalypse then: The mystery of the cataclysm. Eloise -- Fire and ice -- Cape Fear -- VIII: Survive! the mystery of the Invisible Man. Hunter-Gatherers and the Lost Civilization -- Unknown unknowns -- The key to Earth's Lost Civilization -- Appendix 1. Melazonia, aka Amanesia -- Appendix 2. Ancient maps of the ice age -- Appendix 3. First there was a forest, then there was no forest, then there was... -- Notes -- Index. | |
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