Graham Hancock Releases Description of New Book, - Jason Colavito Blog

Having recently noted a drought in new "Fringe History" books on the market, Jason Colavito has taken to examining "promos" of such works still six months from commercial appearance. Jason is of course disappointed in advance at the upcoming tome, whose merits are listed at America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock. But what caught our eye was the description's claim that humans peopled the Americas 130,000 years ago, and Jason's connecting that figure to a paper proposing that mastodon bones of that vintage showed evidence of human damaging. Jason fleshes out this theme here; he stays with past pachyderms in The Claim of Flash-Frozen Mammoths is Older Than I Thought. Here Colavito does his usual chasing of a story, claim, or misinterpretation back to its original source. In Review of "The Search for Atlantis" by Steve P. Kershaw Jason has "very little to say about" the book, mostly because this tome is not "Fringe History" but rather a tracing of the Atlantis myth through time. "I am in almost complete agreement with Kershaw," states Jason, who then details a fair number of quibbles he nonetheless has about the volume. But Jason also accords much praise for The Search for Atlantis, particularly in matters he considers crucial, and gives the new book four out of five stars. (WM)

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