America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781473660588. Publisher: Coronet. Age Range: Adult. Overview. America Before is Graham Hancock's landmark investigation into the true prehistory of the Americas, a continent long assumed to have been among the last on Earth settled by humans. Drawing on cutting-edge archaeology, genetics and geology, Hancock builds a compelling case that sophisticated cultures thrived in North and South America tens of thousands of years earlier than mainstream history admits, connecting these lost societies to a shared, advanced ancestral legacy that spanned the globe long before recorded history began.. About the Book. For decades, the accepted narrative held that the Americas were empty of human life until around 13,000 years ago. In America Before, Graham Hancock dismantles this timeline, presenting new scientific discoveries that push back human settlement of the continent to more than 130,000 years ago — long before humans are thought to have reached many other parts of the world. Travelling from the Mississippi Valley's mysterious earthworks to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Hancock meets the archaeologists, geologists and researchers behind these breakthrough findings, weaving their evidence into a gripping narrative of detection and discovery. He argues that ancient American cultures shared startlingly advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected Old World civilisations, hi...