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Name: America Before
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Author: Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock

The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization

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What’s in it for me? Unlock the secrets of a lost civilization.

For a long time, academic consensus has been that people arrived in America around 13,000 years ago or perhaps a couple of thousand years earlier via an ice-bridge from Asia. But there are a few people on the fringe who think that this view is too narrow-minded. Graham Hancock is one who believes the evidence points to another and – more exciting – conclusion.

In these blinks, we’ll discover Graham Hancock’s belief that human civilization in America is much older and much more fascinating than you had ever imagined. His is a much more dramatic theory of America: a tale of a sophisticated civilization that sailed the oceans many thousands of years ago before being destroyed in an earth-shattering natural disaster.

This reworking of human history will take you on a journey into the deep past, traveling through Ancient Egypt, sailing the banks of the Amazon and exploring Native American monuments.

In these blinks, you’ll learn:

how Australasian DNA ended up in Native Americans;
what happens when 10 percent of the world is on fire; and
how an Egyptian temple tells the tale of a lost American civilization.

The archeological establishment has often been wrong on when humans first reached North America.

The exact point when humanity first set foot in North America has long been a battleground in archeology. And the official academic position has not always been in line with the evidence. Let’s explain.

A hundred and twenty years ago, most scholars believed that there had been no human presence on the North American landmass until 4,000 years ago – the view of an influential scholar, Aleš Hrdlička. The head of anthropology at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of Natural History, Hrdlička made life miserable for any scholar who disagreed with him. A colleague, Frank H. H. Roberts, later admitted that discussing early humanity in North America became so taboo that no academic serious about his career would go near it.

However, in the 1920s and 1930s, evidence emerged which showed that there has been human life in America since at least 12,000 years ago. And it was so compelling that even the most conservative academics had to pay attention.

At a site near a town called Clovis in New Mexico, researchers found beautiful and distinctive projectiles, clearly human-made. They were found next to and in creatures like sabre-toothed cats that had been extinct for over 12,000 years. Here, excitingly, was proof that humans had been present in North America for at least that length of time. Further research led to the discovery of as many as 1,500 Clovis sites, as they came to be known, all across North America.

But instead of seeing Clovis as a starting point, the academic community treated it as an immutable truth. Soon a consensus known as Clovis First emerged – the idea that no older human cultures in America would ever be found.

Dissenters faced ridicule. By 2012, the behavior of the Clovis First brigade was so nasty that the editor of the journal Nature stated that the debate about the earliest Americans had become among the most acrimonious and least productive in all science. When a Canadian archeologist presented fascinating evidence of human activity in caves in the Yukon, 24,000 years ago, he was laughed at.

So, when the archeological community pours scorn on an idea when they reject new theories about earlier humans in the Americas, you shouldn’t just bow to their expertise. They’ve been proved wrong time and time again. And with that healthy commitment to open inquiry in mind, let’s take a look at the evidence for much, much earlier life in America.

A lone mastodon from 130,000 years ago shatters the academic consensus on the earliest peopling of America.

Ice is just as important as earth when it comes to digging into the past.

Clovis First argued that humanity came to America via the Bering Strait, the space between eastern Russia and western Alaska. Today that’s a sea, but once there was an icy land bridge. Although harsh, it would have been passable for the nomads of Asian Siberia. For a long time though, access to the rest of America was limited; the northern parts – think modern-day Alaska and Canada – were covered by a huge, impassable mass of ice.

There is a curious Australasian signal in the DNA of some Americans that raises powerful questions about the past.

It’s always better to pursue the truth than simply to accept the consensus. And the truth is that DNA analysis of early Americans raises interesting questions about their origins.

In 2015, geneticists, including Pontus Skoglund and David Reich from Harvard Medical School, discovered a curious anomaly in the DNA of people in the Amazon descended from Native Americans. In the journal Nature, they described how genome analysis had found lineage between Native Americans in the Amazon and Aboriginal people from Australasia. These South Americans bore more similarity to people from across the oceans in Australasia than they did to other Native Americans from the north of the continent.

The ghost cities and agriculture of the ancient Amazon point to the existence of a rich, sophisticated early civilization.

In 1541, Brother Gaspar de Carvajal joined an expedition setting out from Quito, in today’s Ecuador, toward the Amazon and into the unknown.

Carvajal’s account describes encounters deep into the jungle with a rich and sophisticated civilization. He found cities glistening in white, one stretching for 20 kilometers along the banks of the Amazon, the length of Manhattan. Vast lands were given over to agriculture, Carvajal reported, and roads ventured into the jungle. In one village they captured, the Spaniards found porcelain goods of a beauty and intricacy not reached even in imperial Spain.

There are hitherto-unexplained similarities between Amazonian structures and the geometric earthworks found in the Mississippi Valley.

In 1977, a researcher called Alceu Ranzi spotted something astonishing while flying in a Smithsonian research plane high above the Amazon.

Ranzi identified what he would call geoglyphs – huge, geometrically designed earthworks. Seen from the sky, the geoglyph earthworks form perfect circles, rectangles and other shapes, and connect with each other via straight roads, usually on a clear northwest-to-southwest orientation, meaning that they are aligned with solar movements. Originally thought to be 750 years old, the geoglyphs were dated at 2,000 years old in a 2012 study. These beautiful works were a surprisingly sophisticated creation for this point in Amazonian history.

Native American and Egyptian ideas of the afterlife are eerily similar, and yet the two cultures never met.

A mysterious shaft built into Egypt’s Great Pyramid points directly at the belt of Orion. Its purpose? A portal through which the soul of the dead could journey to Orion, the entry point to the Duat – the realm of the dead.

Moundville in Alabama is a long way from Egypt. But there you’ll learn that the tribes who built its earthworks believed that the dead journeyed to the afterlife through an opening marked by a warrior’s hand in the sky. The wrist of that hand? Orion’s belt.

Twelve thousand eight hundred years ago, a disintegrating giant comet bombarded the Earth, causing vast destruction.

Twelve thousand eight hundred years ago, the world suddenly turned cold. For around 1,200 years in what is now known as the Younger Dryas period, the globe froze. What happened?

Well, one theory is that the Earth found itself in the path of a meteor stream, and for 21 years was bombarded by fragments of a disintegrating comet, with devastating consequences.

The best explanation for the mysteries of the past is the existence of a now lost civilization.

Why did the Clovis people suddenly appear, with an advanced point technology, with no evidence of how it was developed? How do we explain the Australasian DNA in the Amazon? Why do Old World and New World cultures have shared geology, astronomy, archeology and belief systems, despite never having come into contact with each other?

The only credible explanation is a single, lost source civilization, wiped out in the disaster of the Younger Dryas, but whose flame lived on through knowledge transmitted and used by later civilizations. Let’s consider how.

This lost civilization was sea-faring and enjoyed other advanced technology.

Tracing the characteristics of this lost civilization is a little like tracking an Invisible Man. There are signs of his presence everywhere, but he himself remains hidden.

One thing that is clear is that it had seafaring capabilities only surpassed by Western civilization in the last few centuries.

This lost civilization may have been founded on a very different grasp of science and belief to our own.

At Baalbek in modern-day Lebanon three vast stones, each weighing over 800 tons and measuring over 20 meters long, have been carefully laid as part of a larger wall 6 meters above the ground. Even with modern technology, we would struggle to so perfectly lay such a vast stone. So how could an ancient civilization do it?

Perhaps the reason we find little evidence for a lost civilization is that it used forces and techniques unknown to contemporary science, manipulating matter in ways that we simply can’t recognize.

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America Before (2019) is a mind-expanding quest for an ancient and lost way of life. Drawing on lesser-known DNA and archeological evidence, it proposes the existence of a great, early civilization based in North America. Lost to history in the aftermath of a cataclysmic comet strike, this civilization is visible today only in the traces it left in Egyptian, Native American and other great ancient cultures.

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The influence of the lost civilization declares itself repeatedly in the commonalities shared by supposedly unconnected cultures.

—Graham Hancock

Wer America Before lesen sollte

Anyone looking for an imaginative adventure into the past
Historians and archeologists willing to challenge the established view

Über den Autor

Graham Hancock has devoted his life to discovering an ancient lost civilization. A best-selling author who has been scoffed at by establishment archeologists and scholars around the world, Hancock has set out his theories in best-selling titles including Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization, and Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues.

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