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| Fingerprints of the Gods | 
 enlarge | Author: Graham Hancock
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95 (46.96 RON)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  264 reviews
Sales Rank: 19128
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0517887290
Dewey Decimal Number: 520
UPC: 045863887290
EAN: 9780517887295
ASIN: 0517887290
Publication Date: April 2, 1996
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 True or not, it's a great book February 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It doesn't really matter if you believe in the lost civilization of Graham Hancock, the theories he lays down in this book are impressive never-the-less. The idea that there was an advanced civilization in pre-history on which many of the great early civilizations drew influence is a plausible one and Hancock offers a number of theories about who they were and what happened to them.
There is a lot of science in this book and, at times, it's a little hard to digest. This book is strongest, however, in weaving together the similarities in the myths and monuments of great cultures and purposing the idea that they evolved from a common source.
Whether you ultimately agree with Hancock's conclusions or not, readers of this book will be introduced to some interesting possibilities. This was my first book by Hancock and remains my favorite.
Well Research, Excellent Read December 31, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A journey to an acient system of worship and the builders of a pre-deluvian world wanting to leave the message of how to avoid the same mistakes and how to understand the effects of precession on the civilations of Mother Earth.
His best work.
 ENJOYABLE READ December 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods is an interesting book as long as the reader takes it as theory and not gospel truth.
Hancock essentially makes an ascertation that an older unknown society is the link that led to human advancement in different areas of the world.
Where is that older advanced society? His first interesting claim is that at one time, the Antarctic land mass was actually much further north and having a temperate climate as recent as 10,000 BC. Is this the fabled Atlantis that Plato wrote about?
According to Hancock, this is what led to dispersal of humanity. It would be much easier to migrate from a centralized continent to South America, Africa, allowing people to migrate north.
Of course, this goes against conventional thinking, which assumes the migration of the Americas spread south. It also defies the conventional wisdom that all life actually spread from Africa.
He also analyzes the different religions of the world, going back further than most historians. He looks at the Myan Popol Vuh which also speaks of a great flood, and a god-like creature that created and resurrected creation. Even old Norse legends have a worldwide flood comparable to the Christian, Jewish, and Summerian account in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
I admit, to me that was the most interesting part of the book.
The part that bored me was the mathematical analysis of longitude and latitude. Yes, I like studying grids on a man, but Hancock got so precise it seemed he was writing for a mathematician.
His ideas, although interesting, are mere theory and far from being proven. While he gives food for thought, there is no preponderance of evidence.
Of course, the book's greatest weakness is also its strength. It might get the historian thinking, but just don't take the theory too seriously.
 Hancock lacks insight and knowledge. November 21, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The topics covered in the book are nothing new - who built the Great Pyramid and how, pyramids and huge stone monuments in South America, Hapgood's theory of shifting of earth crust, etc. They have been covered before, and covered more effectively.
What's most unfortunate about this rehash is that Mr. Hancock does not seem to possess enough technical or scientific knowledge to speculate and ask intelligent questions on any of the things he sees on his extensive (must have been expensive, too) trips. All he does is to repeat what's been speculated in the past, without offering any new perspective. When he muses about ancient myths, he doesn't offer any poetic inspiration either, the way Joseph Campbell did. It's plain that he is indeed interested in these topics, but if you look for his answers to these enigmas, there is none. The whole thing should have been a travelogue, nothing more.
Time to Review Your Ideas of History October 18, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
With his well researched book, Hancock challenges the dogma of our everyday belief in western concepts of Victorian age history and science. An important read.
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