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said that the book reads like the "Victorian travelogue" of a writer untrained in archeology, who credits a mysterious white people for the achievements of the ancient civilizations he visits, Hancock notably referring to the Maya as "jungle-dwelling
Indians" who could not possibly come up with a
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and suggested that crustal displacement may have caused its destruction. His theories have no supporters in the geological community, where the accepted model is
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this civilization ended in cataclysm, but passed on to its inheritors profound knowledge of such things as
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has been translated into 27 languages and is estimated to have sold five million copies around the world.
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sophisticated calendar. Feder finds
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ones. The author proposes that sometime around the end of the
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394:Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues
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731:"Roland Emmerich's guide to disaster movies"
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479:Killgrove, Kristina (3 September 2015).
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565:(2006), Fourth Estate, London: p.310
852:"The Gentle Art of Myth Management"
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578:(Pantheon Books, 1958; foreword by
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501:Moss, Stephen (6 February 2002).
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932:"Wild Side of Geoarchaeology"
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561:Pringle, Heather,
534:The New York Times
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