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Denisovan Origins
- Hybrid Humans, Göbekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 10 hrs
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Summary
Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world
- Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago
- Shows how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of ancient societies, including the Adena mound-building culture
- Explores the Denisovans’ extraordinary advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, and celestially-aligned architecture
Ice-age cave artists, the builders at Göbekli Tepe, and the mound-builders of North America all share a common ancestry in the Solutreans, Neanderthal-human hybrids of immense sophistication, who dominated southwest Europe before reaching North America 20,000 years ago. Yet, even before the Solutreans, the American continent was home to a powerful population of enormous stature, giants remembered in Native American legend as the Thunder People. New research shows they were hybrid descendants of an extinct human group known as the Denisovans, whose existence has now been confirmed from fossil remains found in a cave in the Altai region of Siberia.
Tracing the migrations of the Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations in Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas, Andrew Collins and Greg Little explore how the new mental capabilities of the Denisovan-Neanderthal and Denisovan-human hybrids greatly accelerated the flowering of human civilization over 40,000 years ago. They show how the Denisovans displayed sophisticated advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, celestially-aligned architecture, and horse domestication. Examining evidence from ancient America, the authors reveal how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of the Adena mound-building culture, explaining the giant skeletons found in Native American burial mounds. The authors also explore how the Denisovans’ descendants were the creators of a cosmological death journey and viewed the Milky Way as the Path of Souls.
Revealing the impact of the Denisovans upon every part of the world, the authors show that, without early man’s hybridization with Denisovans, Neanderthals, and other yet-to-be-discovered hominid populations, the modern world as we know it would not exist.
Critic reviews
"Collins and Little are the perfect team to address one of humanity’s greatest enigmas.... From giant skeletons to the mysterious mound builders of ancient America, this team assembles the lost pieces of the human time line." (Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, award-winning New York Times best-selling author and documentary film director)
"Andrew Collins and Greg Little are two of the most respected writers in the ancient mysteries subject. They team up to provide a comprehensive account of the enigmatic Denisovans and their impact on the emergence of modern human society. If they are correct in their findings, as I very much suspect they are, then they have discovered a missing chapter in our knowledge of the emergence of civilization, both in the ancient world and - as I put forward in my own book America Before - in the Americas." (Graham Hancock, author of the New York Times best seller America Before)
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- MR JASON HAMMOND
- 30-12-20
Long and tough listening
Generally a very good book, needed some maps and or pictures to help with detail. Shows in the second half how stupid the yanks are even about their own history.
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- Jon Karlsson
- 10-11-20
Narrator makes the title no favour what so ever!
The narrator reads as if he is not in the least interested in the subject and as if he just whats to get through it as fast as possible. A pity on an interesting subject.
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- Knowledge thru Books.
- 28-02-22
A complicated yet enthralling book.
If you have read the authors prior books you will find this book fascinating, and a little less complicated than the novice ,Detailed and thoroughly researched the book does indeed have a fair amount of feasible conjecture . Speculation is the norm in terms of this narrative. That being said it this book does make a lot of sense and perhaps is very close to the mark.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-04-23
Good book for me.
interesting book if you like this sort of thing. I thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through.
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-11-20
Another insight into our beginnings
I feel like I'm getting the hang of it all having read several books on the subject now. It was much better once I got the narration slowed down.
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- tommy2bob
- 29-10-21
did not disappoint
worth Andrew Collins being banned from Turkey for! Although the central hypothesis of this book is not in my view solid enough to invalidate all of mainstream thinking on the subject, it certainly gets you thinking and I love romance behind the giant Denisovan shamans being the teachers of mankind.
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