I was already aware of a little of what Graham Hancock discusses in FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS. For example, I knew about places like Baalbek, which was made by an ancient and "undetermined" civilization far superior to the ancient Romans in building technology. Imagine if homes were built like they constructed Baalbek, homes that would just as new and fresh when they were built 2,000 years ago. Today's civilization has no clue how Baalbek could have been built and today they are still completely unable to reproduce such quality and level of worksmanship.

Then there was the evidence of drowned advanced underwater cities in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. By "advanced" I mean places that had irrigation, pottery, and running water, and all thousands of years before it appeared on dry land. I was aware of other things like the underwater 'Stonehenge' monolith found off the coast of Sicily in 131 feet of water, and being underwater, I knew this had to mean that this monolith (and many of the advanced cities in the Indian ocean and elsewhere) had to exist before the Younger Dryas event, when sea levels were 393 feet lower than they are today.

Finally, I put together an animation of the advance and retreat of the last four major glaciations of the last 400,000 years, and there were a few things that struck me as very odd. Wholly Mammoths had no problem surviving the last three glaciations/inter-glaciation events, so why couldn't they make it through the end of the last glaciation? Also, when the Cordilleran ice sheet withdrew during the last three glaciations, not much change was visible in the landscape (from a satellite's point-of-view), but the end of the last glaciation left behind tremendously huge "potholes" called the Great Lakes, it greatly expanded Hudson Bay, and it left behind numerous large kettle holes -- all things that didn't occur during the last three glaciations, despite all of them being equally sized events.

So what does it all mean? That's where Graham comes in with his book, THE FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS ...

SIDENOTE -- I don't buy into any of those phony strawman claims of Graham being a "pseudo-archaeologist" because Graham never claimed to be an archeologist. Therefore I am not the least bit interested in any of the great many personal attacks made on Graham, but rather any attacks made on his factual claims, which so far has been absolutely zero.

... I don't know where Graham got all the money or the time to do all this research, but I am grateful that he did. So far I have found all of Graham's claims to plausible, verifiable, and validatable. In conclusion, Graham's investigative journalism ties all the pieces together of what I was looking for, and it is a very remarkable story: Obviously a huge mass extinction event took place due to a comet impacting the Cordilleran ice sheet that killed off the Wholly Mammoths (and other large animals like Glyptodons, Megatheriums, etc), inundated major cities in the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Mediterranean Sea, as well as why, starting about 7,000 years ago, there was an extreme collapse of human genetic diversity (see CULTURAL HITCHHIKING AND COMPETITION BETWEEN PATRILINEAL KIN GROUPS EXPLAIN THE POST-NEOLITHIC Y-CHROMOSOME BOTTLENECK). It all makes sense now! There were no stones left unturned by Graham, so ...

Thank you Graham Hancock for doing such a superb job of investigative researching!

SIDENOTE -- I'm not going to be as diplomatic as Graham tries to be: Archeology hasn't become a pseudoscience as he thinks it has, it is a science that has been hijacked by the Christian establishment for the purposes of suppressing anything that makes civilization appear older than what they want you to believe it is. They most certainly don't want you to entertain the idea that a race of humans much superior intellectually to what exists today, used to exist until a global disaster wiped them out. That narrative doesn't exist in the Bible and would erase all confidence in the narrative of the Bible, as well as anything else associated with it.

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Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues