A review by spinnerroweok
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock

2.0

So, I'm listening to this book exploring the archaeology of the Americas and how the writer proposes that the time of migration to the Americas from Asia should be moved back many many thousands of years. However, I start to get uneasy as the author constantly complains about the "institutional" archaeologists and scientists try to muscle him out because what he proposes would "destroy" their careers. Then he starts making connections with Native American beliefs and Egyptian beliefs. So far, I'm like, "OK, maybe he is a little on the fringe, but still within the realm of possibilities provided that more evidence can ever be found." Then, WHAM! In the last hour of this 16 hour audiobook, Hancock goes off on a tangent about Ancient Americans or a group of mysterious world travelers using telepathy, telekinetics, and ESP to construct all sorts of marvels. And all this knowledge is lost in a great cataclysmic rain of comet fragments on North America. Now I don't know what to believe from this book, but I will tell you, it ain't much. This book is worthy of a History Channel special, right next to Pawn Stars and Ancient Aliens because like them, it has little to do with history.