Prehistory Decoded

by Martin Sweatman

Nearly 13,000 years ago millions of people and animals were wiped out, and the world plunged abruptly into a new ice-age. It was more than a thousand years before the climate, and mankind, recovered.

The people of Gobekli Tepe in present-day southern Turkey, whose ancestors witnessed this catastrophe, built a megalithic monument formed of many hammer-shaped pillars decorated with symbols as a memorial to this terrible event. Before long, they also invented agriculture, and their new farming culture spread rapidly across the continent, signalling the arrival of civilisation.

Before abandoning Gobekli Tepe thousands of years later, they covered it completely with rubble to preserve the greatest and most important story ever told for future generations. Archaeological excavations began at the site in 1994, and we are now able to read their story, more amazing than any Hollywood plot, again for the first time in over 10,000 years. It is a story of survival and resurgence that allows one of the world’s greatest scientific puzzles – the meaning of ancient artworks, from the 40,000 year-old Lion-man figurine of Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany to the Great Sphinx of Giza – to be solved.

We now know what happened to these people. It probably had happened many times before and since, and it could happen again, to us. The conventional view of prehistory is a sham; we have been duped by centuries of misguided scholarship. The world is actually a much more dangerous place than we have been led to believe. The old myths and legends, of cataclysm and conflagration, are surprisingly accurate.

We know this because, at last, we can read an extremely ancient code assumed by scholars to be nothing more than depictions of wild animals. A code hiding in plain sight that reveals we have hardly changed in 40,000 years. A code that changes everything.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

321 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 5, 2019

Reviews

[Graham Bear · Rating 5 out of 5]

Erudite scholarship is much to be admired. A very interesting and thorough book. I find Mr. Sweatman's theory to be very persuasive. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

[Mark L Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Catastrophy

I really believe, as others do, that as a species we are a lot more than what we know. Our understanding of our history and ourselves is incomplete by a lot! This book helps full on some of the gaps.

[Angus Mac rury · Rating 5 out of 5]

Martin Sweatman has used scientific principles to work out correlation between ancient proof writing and symbology to produce a convincing argument of pre Neolithic understanding of zodiac and moon cycles and cataclysmic events in prehistory.


This book is a brave venture in that it actively investigates geological evidence for comets and using probability related to timelines in prehistory.

An excellent thought provoking piece of honest research.

[Alexandros Angelis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed Martin Sweatman's book very much. Although I do not agree on everything, I am convinced his theory is correct. This is very interesting and pioneer research, showing that the zodiac has remained almost unchanged for at least 40.000 years. Furthermore, after Robert Schoch we have another serious scientist placing the creation of the Sphinx many millennia earlier than the conventional dating, and he has reached this conclusion using a completely different method than Schoch's. What a shock - or I should say schoch - for mainstream scientists... Thanks for the great read Martin!

[Nya Alison · Rating 5 out of 5]

AI advancements form the basis for intriguing new hypotheses about paleo astronomers

Did we record historical events using astronomical alignments? The statistical analysis presented here is fairly conclusive. Though more research is needed to be sure of why ancient ancestors carved astronomical calendars in stone.,the evidence maybe stacking up for cosmic bombardment events as the trigger for people to note the date with solstice and equinox constellation alignments.

[Tony · Rating 1 out of 5]

What utter and complete nonsense.
This is just a modern version of the pyramidiots books of the 60's. The kind of pulp fiction that made Von Daniken famous.
All this goes to show is that the Hancock model of:
* Be well spoken
* Create an theory which cannot be proven and use this to argue it cannot, therefore be disproven
* Pepper your theories with scientific language
* Cry like a baby if anyone asks serious questions of your "work"

Will sell books to the easily impressed.

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really thorough and fascinating outline of a theory that a cosmic catastrophe caused the Younger Dryas event. This marker in time is argued was a pivotal period in the development of human history. The author Swearman carefully builds his case using a range of data. I loved the way he includes the counter arguments to strengthen his own case. A very interesting piece of work.

[Daniel Gregg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found the authors research and scholarship to be quite convincing in so many areas. It’s a pleasure to read something more than just a hunch about what we do not know.

[Stefan Krt · Rating 5 out of 5]

If the science is right and the math correct the authors credentials are there so…fascinating, it’s like we know nothing or what we know is not the complete pictures ..at all!!