I just finished reading "Fingerprints of the Gods" by Graham Hancock. It
deals with an ancient 'prehistorical' civilization as does the Resurrect
Isis website. On the Resurrect Isis website I argue that the meltdown of
the
Ice Age was the germinal event which set forces in motion that led to the
development of human civilization as we know it. My basic argument has
been
that our ancestors turned to agriculture because their Stone Age economy
crashed when the Ice Age melted down.
Fingerprints of the Gods carries that argument a bit further and argues
that
there was an earlier "high" civilization during the Ice Age and that the
"human civilization as we know it" which rose after the meltdown was not
the
first human civilization. By Hancock's argument, the civilization that
rose
after the meltdown was not a step up from a 'primitive' Stone Age culture,
but a poor renaissance of the earlier higher one. Hancock's work goes more
deeply into the causes of the meltdown than my research has gone.
My first reaction was to reject his basic geological "Earth Crust
Displacement" argument, that the continents have moved much further and
more
swiftly than continental drift and plate tectonics could have moved them.
Some of his evidence is mighty hard to refute.
I'm an old arctic hand. I spent many years living and working in the
Arctic.
I have some ideas of my own concerning what the ice ages were and were
not,
which do not agree very well with established beliefs and scientific
theories. A lot of those scientists and academicians have never been
closer
to the Arctic than the air conditioners in their offices. Some of their
ideas and theories make a lot of assumptions about things they have never
seen. Now, having read Hancock's arguments, I'm having to do some serious
rethinking about my own ideas and theories.
In the past, Day Brown has pointed out to me some things and dates that
didn't fit very well into my ideas about the Ice Age and events following
the meltdown. Maybe there was an earlier "high" civilization. I recommend
this book to Day Brown and any others who might be interested in a new
look
at that whole subject. There is some mighty interesting stuff there.
Respectfully,
Will Moore
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