Fingerprints of the Gods

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization is a 1995 pseudoarchaeology book by British writer Graham Hancock. Hancock claims that an advanced civilization lived on Antarctica during the last ice age before the continent shifted south to its current position. He argues that survivors carried their knowledge to cultures around the world, which he says produced the earliest known civilizations. The book promotes a form of hyperdiffusionism that draws heavily on the work of Ignatius L. Donnelly and Charles Hapgood. Hancock later extended the narrative in Magicians of the Gods.