Abstract
A Neglected (But Challenging) Archaeological Perspective
Highlights
In the world of archaeology it seems that it takes a long time for what Thomas Kuhn called a “paradigm switch” to take place
In the book Hancock put forward the argument that, contrary to the mainstream archaeological assumption, that there were no advanced civilisations on Earth before the ancient Egyptians, archaeological evidence suggests that such civilisation(s) did exist before 12500 years ago
The first question that these claims poses is, to people who have not read Hancock’s work - what is the evidence for the existence of such ancient civilisations? In Fingerprints of the Gods evidence revolves, inter alia, around indications that knowledge of the coastline of part of Antarctica - today covered in an ice sheet - existed prior to the modern discovery of Antarctica, indicated by the socalled Piri Reis map dating from 1513, which Reis acknowledged as resting on maps of much older provenance
Summary
In the world of archaeology it seems that it takes a long time for what Thomas Kuhn called a “paradigm switch” to take place. As long ago as 1995 someone called Graham Hancock published an extensively researched book, Fingerprints of the Gods, the multiple references in which alone should convince one of the thoroughness of the research.
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