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Exploring the Believability of Graham Hancock’s Theory of a Lost American Civilization
Unlock the secrets of a lost civilization in America Before, by Graham Hancock.
Contrary to popular belief, academic consensus states people arrived in America much earlier than 13,000 years ago – by as much as a couple thousands years earlier.
Through this book, Hancock offers his own unique and exciting hypothesis about how this mysterious ancient civilization could have flourished and been destroyed- with evidence pointing to its existence.
This journey through the deep past will take readers to locations like Ancient Egypt and across the Amazon rivers.
Throughout it, you’ll discover more about how historical evidence from places like Native American monuments could prove the existence of an advanced civilization that sailed across oceans many thousands of years ago.
This theory will answer questions such as why Australasian DNA is present in American Natives, what happens when a tenth of the world is on fire, and how Egyptian temples tell a story of a lost advanced society in America.
The Ongoing Debate: Challenging the Idea of ‘Clovis First’ for Human Activity in North America
When it comes to the presence of humans in North America, the archeological establishment has often been wrong.
This history of denial and stifling debate began with Aleš Hrdlička’s claim that there had been no human presence until around 4,000 years ago.
Even after evidence emerged pointing to humans being present for at least 12,000 years – through discoveries like the Clovis sites which were found all over North America – many still refused to accept it and instead popularized the idea of Clovis First.
Academic dissenters were routinely ridiculed and dismissed from any real debate, reaching a head in 2012 when an editor from Nature commented on how acrimonious and unproductive the debate between researchers had become.
Even the discovery that human activity could be tracked back as far as 24, 000 years ago was met with laughter by those adhering to this outdated view.
It’s clear that rigorous skepticism is necessary when it comes to unchanging beliefs about early American populations, especially since scholars have so frequently been proven wrong in the past.
How the Discovery of a 130,000-Year-Old Mastodon Revealed an Unexpected Human Migration Into America
The discovery of a lone mastodon in the suburbs of San Diego completely rocked the scientific consensus on when people first arrived in America.
Found near an anvil and hammer stone, this solitary mastodon bone was initially assumed to be no more than 13,000 years old.
But then, a radiometric dating analysis revealed that it was actually much, much older – some 130,000 years older.
This finding has revolutionized our understanding of how people got to America; if people were settling here that long ago, it suggests they arrived by migrating through Siberia to the Bering land bridge.
Previously thought impossible due to ice walls covering northern parts of North America at the time, this new finding shatters previous theories and turns them on their head.
Who were these people and what prompted their migration? The answers have yet to be found!
DNA Analysis Reveals the Mysterious Origin of Early Americans and a Possible Ocean Crossing
DNA analysis of some Native Americans in the Amazon reveals an unexpected anomaly: a lineage connecting them to Aboriginal people in Australasia.
This Australasian signal raises powerful questions about the origins of Americans, and has been verified countless times by geneticists at Harvard Medical School.
According to David Reich, it suggests that there may not have been a single founding population that cross the Bering land bridge, but rather another old-founding population for which traces are now lost.
It is possible that these ancestral lineages are best preserved in remote parts of the Amazon because of less gene mixing with other people from around America.
This raises an exciting possibility: prehistorical settlers from Australasia could have sailed across the Pacific Ocean to South America!
Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen’s GeoGenetics Center believes that only one group populated America thus far but does admit to the presence of this Australian signal – and there is no obvious explanation for its potency other than ocean crossing.
While no evidence exists currently suggesting pre-humans were able make such a voyage, Homo erectus have been known to inhabit Indonesian islands 800,000 years ago – implying they must have used boats to get there.
Therefore, we certainly cannot discount what some say may have been possible for our Stone-Age ancestors: sailing across the Pacific Ocean.
Exploring the Skies and Soil of the Amazon Uncovers Evidence of a Sophisticated Civilization
Throughout history, accounts of a sophisticated civilization existing in the Amazon have been treated as fantasy.
But new evidence suggests something much more intriguing – that the reports may actually be true.
Gaspar de Carvajal’s account 16th-century expedition into the Amazon described encounters with cities that glistened white for 20 kilometers and massive lands given over to agriculture.
He reported seeing beautiful porcelain goods far beyond what those available in Spain at the time.
Recent archeological findings further confirm this possibility – laser technology revealed previously unknown houses, palaces, fortresses and roads in a region of Guatemala with terrain very similar to the Amazon.
In addition, scholars have found large quantities of terra preta – an incredibly fertile soil made from composting human, animal waste, fish bones and household products – which could not have been discovered without advanced knowledge.
These cities and agricultural systems point to a thriving civilization within the Amazon long before Europeans arrived on its shores; one which managed to cultivate crops in an otherwise hostile environment by creating their own systems of cultivation and production.
For us today, the possibilities are truly captivating!
Exploring Ancient Earthworks Reveals an Unexpected Shared Source
A puzzling commonality between the earthworks of ancient cultures in both the Amazon rainforest and Mississippi Valley has left histroians confounded.
Alceu Ranzi, a researcher famed for uncovering astonishing geoglyphs in the Amazon, noted their remarkable similarity to those which have been found over 7000 kilometers away in North America.
The designs of each set of geoglyphs appear strikingly similar, with vast circles and other shapes constructed around perfect geometric lines running along a northwest-southwest orientation, which suggests alignment with solar movements.
The Newark Earthworks in Ohio, made up of an octagon connected by a causeway to an immense circle 321.3 meters in diameter is a testament to their creators’ prowess when it comes to geometry: its perfect alignment with High Bank Earthworks located 60 miles away hint at an expertise far surpassing what was previously assumed possible at the time.
In addition to this mastery of mathematics, builders had eerily similar interests when it came to astronomy; both Amazonian and Native American structures reflect events like lunar standstills and solstice sunrises/sunsets incredibly closely – close enough that experts are hard pressed to come up with any explanations as to how such accuracy could have occurred without wide-reaching connections between different civilizations across our planet back then.
Without concrete evidence or further research concerning these works of art, their origins remain unknown and their presence is all the more fascinating because of it.
Exploring the Ancient Cataclysm: Uncovering a Mysterious Link Between Egyptian and Native American Afterlife Beliefs
Native American and Egyptian cultures have some surprisingly similar ideas about the afterlife, even though they never met.
You might expect this if they had been in contact with each other in the past, but these two ancient civilizations never actually interacted at all.
For example, both cultures believed that the soul of the dead could journey to Orion, with Egyptians believing there was a portal within their Great Pyramid pointing in that direction and Native Americans believing there was a warrior’s hand signaling their path.
In addition, both suggest that a ladder must be ascended to reach the stars of Orion’s belt, which is also where souls headed when making the Milky Way journey to their realm according to Native American stories.
Additionally, they shared eerily gruesome scenes explaining this journey – with Egyptians depicting a goddess opening a man’s head with a hatchet and Native Americans talking of an intimidating female figure called Brain Smasher encountered on the same quest.
These similarities are too uncanny for it to be mere coincidence.
It’s possible that both nations share a common predecessor but much more research is needed before we can know for sure why Native American and Egyptian ideas about the afterlife so closely overlap despite having no direct contact with one another throughout history.
How a Cataclysm 12,800 Years Ago Gave Rise to the Hunter-Gatherers and Forced Advanced Civilizations to Pass on their Knowledge
Twelve thousand eight hundred years ago, the Earth experienced a catastrophic event that left a lasting impression.
According to researchers, it was brought on by the bombardment of Earth by fragments from a disintegrating comet.
It caused an ice-cold winter of six months and spurred 1,000 years of glacial weather – known as the Younger Dryas period.
Devastation was widespread: 9% of all plant matter in the world burned, with an area of over 10 million square kilometers alight with fire.
Smoke blanketed the planet, blocking out significant amounts of sunlight.
Huge ice-sheets melted, causing sea levels to rise by up to four meters in rushing floods that destroyed everything in their path.
The effects were felt across wildlife and human life alike; megafauna like mammoths and sabre-tooth tigers died out while advanced Clovis cultures vanished too.
Hunter-gatherer societies were heavily impacted but some lucky few survived – evidence of their resilience even in such a life threatening disaster!
The Lost World of the Ancient Astronomer-Priests: How Signs Seen in the Sky Brought Hope to Prehistoric America and Beyond
For centuries, different cultures across the world have shared similarities in both architecture and religion, yet have never had contact with each other.
This has led some to suggest that this is evidence for a lost civilization before the Younger Dryas period.
Named America Before, this lost civilization would help explain why the Clovis people suddenly appeared without an apparent origin, how Australasian DNA can be found in The Amazon, and why elements of Old World culture could be observed in New World culture – all despite never having had contact with one another.
The best explanation is that the astronomers-priests of America Before saw a threat on the horizon via shooting stars and decided to prepare for it.
Having realized their hunting-gathering contemporaries may offer better survival odds, these priests taught them to carry forward their beliefs and technology through future generations.
Thus ensuring that – despite destroyed civilizations – their flame lives on in modern times around the world.
Indeed this idea is supported by key texts from Ancient Egypt which tell of survivors setting sail to recreate a destroyed world among indigenous populations.
Just look at civilization from Edfu to Angkor Wat – we can see traces of Amercia Before’s resurrection in present times!
Searching for Clues of an Ancient Invisible Civilization Whose Advanced Technology and Spiritual Wisdom Reshaped Ours
It is clear from the evidence we have available that this lost civilization was not only capable of advanced seafaring but also to develop sophisticated technologies.
This is indicated by the Australasian DNA signal, the Piri Reis map depicting Japan as a single landmass and the presence of ancient underwater roads along what would have been islands 12,800 years ago.
The Clovis people long-range projectile technology also hints at contact with such an advanced civilization.
These projectiles appeared suddenly with no sign of prototypes or evolutionary stages; suggesting they were taught this technology instead of discovering it themselves.
If any civilization could explain these peculiarities, it must have been one that had existed for over a hundred thousand years and been drastically different from our own spiritually and technologically.
Could Our Lost Civilization Have Embraced Shamanism Instead of Material Science?
The evidence suggests that this mysterious lost civilization may have been founded on a very different grasp of science and belief to our own.
Take, for example, the three 800-ton stones at Baalbek in modern-day Lebanon that are arranged as part of a larger wall 6 meters above the ground.
With today’s technology we would have difficulty achieving this feat—but somehow, an ancient civilization did it.
The author argues that the focus of this lost society was not material science but psi capabilities like telepathy and telekinesis which use the power of human consciousness to manipulate matter and channel energy.
And even more far-fetched is the theory that this civilization relied on shamanism–acquiring knowledge and insight from visions or hallucinations induced by consuming hallucinogenic plants such as ayahuasca.
What we can take away from this is that there is perhaps a whole host of potential experiences out there that today’s society is simply missing out on because we are so married to our technology and material science.
Maybe, when we lost trace of this ancient civilization, memory disappeared along with it—including an important connection to the natural world with huge implications for the way we think about our own experience of being alive
Wrap Up
In America Before, author Graham Hancock presents the chilling conclusion that a sophisticated and technologically advanced civilization existed in America between 130,000 and 12,000 years ago.
Even though there remains no absolute evidence of this civilization today, the author suggests that clues can be found in its supposed successors or inheritors, from Ancient Egypt to the Native Americans.
In conclusion, it appears that Hancock believes there was an immensely advanced people living in America before recorded history began, although with limited evidence left behind.
