false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177597998m/715728.jpg 715728 1 Graham Hancock's latest foray into the murky uncharted waters of the past is, in this case, exactly that--<I>Underworld</I> is an exploration of what lies beneath the sea, mainly off the coasts of India, Malta and Japan. Hancock, well known for his disputes with orthodox archaeologists, argues that they ought to be looking underwater for submerged ruins, and that by not doing so they are stubbornly holding on to out-dated and incorrect theories. Hancock doesn't have a lot of time for academics. Most of them, he seems to suggest, having spent their careers safely in their ivory towers, are unwilling even to consider new paradigms which could overturn everything they have learnt and taught. And Hancock's thesis would do just that.<p> In <I>Underworld</I>--the book of his Channel 4 TV series--he argues that far from springing out of nowhere some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, civilisation has been with mankind for many millennia longer. With the aid of a geologist at Durham University, Hancock examines which coastal areas vanished beneath the sea as the ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age, a catastrophic inundation he finds in the Flood myths of most of the world's traditional religions. And then he goes diving and finds, in some cases, incontrovertible ruins; in other cases the piles of stone might well be natural rock formations, but Hancock argues for their human origins. <p> Hancock accepts that he is neither a historian, an archaeologist nor a geologist. Some of his arguments tend to be rather speculative, and some of his conclusions may well be wrong--it's not always a good thing to ignore the experts! But in this massive book--well over 700 pages--he does provide sufficient evidence for flooded ruins that ought to be studied by real scholars. And if a few cherished paradigms are overturned in the process, surely this is what science is all about. --<I>David V Barrett</I> 701980 2002 Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age total:12|5:9|3:3| 12 54 24 0 0 0 false false Sat Nov 07 17:18:52 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 17:18:52 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 08:31:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 08:31:00 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 16:08:48 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 16:08:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jul 16 15:27:46 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 15:27:46 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Apr 26 03:14:26 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 03:14:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:42:20 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 00:42:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 22 21:15:50 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 21:15:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Feb 18 14:34:12 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 14:34:12 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 12 18:56:41 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 18:56:41 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 03:40:09 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 03:40:09 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 07 16:27:30 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 16:27:39 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Oct 26 15:30:09 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 15:30:09 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Oct 14 14:54:18 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 14:54:18 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Aug 14 11:11:42 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 11:11:42 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jun 03 13:44:39 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 13:44:39 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue May 06 21:30:49 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 21:30:49 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Apr 02 03:43:12 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 06:02:37 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 01 21:42:50 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 21:43:00 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Apr 01 12:46:02 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 12:46:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Mar 29 23:42:39 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 23:42:44 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=715728