This brings to mind "some" of the stuff that Graham Hancock has written about, (he has since sort of lost his mind) about "lost histories" and civilizations from pre-history that have yet to be uncovered.
is this where you're refering to pre-columbian history as prehistory? i seem to remember debating this on the plane, too.
Well, yes, I was reading that book on the plane, but Graham Hancock lost his mind just of late when he wrote some book about ESP or talking to frogs or something. I can't remember what he wrote about. Previously he wrote several books about the similarities between the birth of "civilization" in different parts of the world and suggested that there was a single earth culture that was amazingly sophisticated 10,000 years ago that has long since been lost to history, under the sea or buried under monuments/cities, etc. built since. Mann's book has built upon research that has been going on for about 50 years that revises the traditional view that there were very few people in the Americas; that Cortez and Pizarro defeated the Aztecs and Indians with superior firepower and technology alone; and that the Indians were mostly primitive, especially north of Mexico or in the Amazon. None of these things turn out to be true.
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is this where you're refering to pre-columbian history as prehistory? i seem to remember debating this on the plane, too.
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