Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues

I've watched interviews and listened to podcasts with Graham Hancock for a couple of years now. The pieces of Graham's ideas were a little bit mixed in my mind and this book does a good job of building the puzzle.

Bringing clarity about the past is hard work and there's no doubt that when we're trying to build a timeline of our species we encounter some pretty big anomalies. Outlandish as they may seem, Graham's ideas try to provide an alternative to the current mainstream-historian-approved timeline of our evolution that tries to make room for the current anomalies to fit it. Well, at least he's asking more in-depth questions about them in the first place. Some theories stand on much better ground than others but even the wobbly ones add to the whole mystique of the book.

What's most important is that, since writing this book, there have been at least two discoveries, naming here Gobekli Tepe and neighbouring buried megalithic complexes in Turkey and the Hiawatha crater in Greenland that fit in with Graham's work. Moreover, there's this “shit just keeps getting older” pattern of discoveries from all around the world that make the current narrative more and more out of place as time goes by.

A lot of people either love or hate Graham Hancock, but one thing's for sure, since writing this book he's been more often proven right than wrong. In my opinion, we don't have to close the book and believe Graham's got the answer, we should rather consider that the right questions are not being asked enough.