America Before

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Graham Hancock

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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.

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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