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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

The Buache map, with landmasses which show Antarctica very much
as it would have looked before it became covered by ice.
Which one is correct?
If we are to go along with orthodox geologists and accept that millions
of years have indeed elapsed since Antarctica was last completely free of
ice, then all the evidence of human evolution, painstakingly accumulated
by distinguished scientists from Darwin on, must be wrong. It seems
inconceivable that this could be the case: the fossil record makes it
abundantly clear that only the unevolved ancestors of humanity existed
millions of years ago—low-browed knuckle-dragging hominids incapable
of advanced intellectual tasks like map-making.
Are we therefore to assume the intervention of alien cartographers in
orbiting spaceships to explain the existence of sophisticated maps of an
ice-free Antarctica? Or shall we think again about the implications of
Hapgood’s theory of earth-crust displacement which allows the southern
continent to have been in the ice-free condition depicted by Buache as
little as 15,000 years ago?
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14 For a fuller discussion of the evidence behind this theory see Part VIII of this book and
Hapgood's Earth's Shifting Crust.

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