- Graham, are you opposing the official version of archaeologists about the appearance of the first people in America?

- Archeology is very dogmatic. Since the 60s of the last century, the point of view was widespread, according to which the first people appeared in America about 13,400 years ago. According to this theory, the Clovis culture carriers (its distribution officially dates back to 9500–9000 BC - RT ) came to the mainland from Siberia. Any scientist who refuted this doctrine was severely attacked. The archaeological community behaved like a pack of hyenas - attacked dissenters and completely destroyed their career.

- You write that the editor of the journal Nature spoke about the real persecution of those who had a different opinion. Who and why was it needed?

- It was about terrible aggression. Perhaps the fact is that people tend to protect their intellectual territory. They are not ready to accept the opposite point of view on the development of America. For over 50 years, all evidence of an earlier human presence on the mainland has been ignored. Now we know that the mainland was settled 130 thousand years ago - the period of its history 100 thousand years long was not studied because of the dogmatic nature of the archaeological community.

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- In your book about America, in addition to archeology, did you mention genetics and biology?

- Genetic evidence is emerging that cannot be explained in the old paradigm. It was believed that people came to the territory of America only one way - through North Asia, Siberia, the Bering Strait, which was previously an isthmus. But DNA analysis confirms that a genetic link exists between the aborigines of Australia, New Guinea and the Amazonian tribes. If such a trace were found in Central and North America, it would not be contrary to the existing dogma, but it is not there. The first people may have moved to the mainland across the Pacific during the last ice age. The DNA of the ancient skeletal material confirms this.

- Civilizations in different parts of the planet arose almost simultaneously?

- The matter of my life is to inform people that during the ice age there was a highly developed society, which was destroyed as a result of the cataclysm. This is what many myths and traditions tell us. Traditional archeology completely ignores this. My role is to present serious, well-studied and carefully documented evidence that goes against the established opinion on this matter. Both Americas could be the cradle of civilization. Archeologists for a long time believed that civilization originated in the Middle East, in Mesopotamia. But now they have discovered more ancient traces, such as the Gobekli Tepe temple complex in Turkey. Thus, the estimated date of occurrence of the first civilization is shifted to the last glacial period.

- Could her death be a comet?

- Yes, but archaeologists do not like this hypothesis. She put forward more than 60 reputable scientists: oceanographers, geophysicists, geologists. They studied the boundary layer of the late Dryas, which is very unusual in its parameters. It was found a lot of soot and other evidence of large-scale wildfires. At its base are elements that could arise only in the event of a comet colliding with Earth. On an area of ​​tens of millions of square miles, iridium, molten glass, microspherical carbon particles and nanodiamonds, which were formed 12,800 years ago as a result of an impact, were discovered. Then a certain cataclysm occurred - no one denies this. It was at that time that the extinction of mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and mastodons was necessary. Until now, it was argued that this could happen through the fault of man.

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- Due to excessive hunting?

- Yes, but the hypothesis of the destruction of megafauna by people is unsuccessful. It is impossible to imagine that one group of hunters could completely destroy their prey. The history of mankind was influenced by an unknown factor - to all appearances, a comet, the diameter of which initially could be about 160 km. She flew into the solar system from deep space and began to divide into parts. 12,800 years ago, four of them fell in the region of the ice cap of our planet, which shifted towards Greenland and North America. Huge volumes of ice melted, as a result of which a very large amount of water fell into the World Ocean. There was a sudden severe cooling on a global scale.

“Why do you think a part of the scientific community is trying to hide the truth about the discoveries of early civilizations in the region of the native American population?”

- There are two points to consider. The Anglo-Saxons encountered the indigenous population, which lived in those regions for tens of thousands of years, and tried to destroy it. Also, the conquerors began to depreciate the high level of Indian culture. The purpose of this conspiracy was to justify the colonial conquests, during which vast territories were appropriated. This approach successfully migrated to the twentieth century.

- In your book, you mention the “cities of Amazonia” and compare them with London, whose population in the XVI century was 60 thousand people.

“Sadly, we owe this discovery to large-scale deforestation. Traces of the existence of large cities were found, where tens of thousands of people lived and science was highly developed. The sizes of geoglyphs — patterns on the ground in the form of squares and circles — reach hundreds of meters. The ancient inhabitants of Amazonia were solving complex mathematical problems.

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- Information about the destroyed advanced civilization remained on Earth thanks to hunters and gatherers?

- There are people whose way of life is based on hunting and gathering in Namibia and Amazonia. They prefer to maintain their lifestyle. I believe that earlier on the planet with hunters and gatherers representatives of a developed civilization coexisted. However, as a result of a collision with a comet, they did not survive. The same thing would have happened to us now, since we, the spoiled children of Earth, are not psychologically prepared for a catastrophe. We are accustomed to clothes, a roof over our heads, large stocks of food in a supermarket. Mostly hunters and gatherers and some representatives of a developed civilization survived.

- We spend trillions on military technology. Perhaps we should allocate money to protect ourselves from similar disasters in the future?

- Of course. We spend huge amounts of money on weapons of mass destruction, but we don’t think about how to protect the Earth from environmental threats or from a collision with a comet. The fragments, which the celestial body disintegrated 12,800 years ago, are still in orbit, in the tauric meteor shower, through which the planet passes twice a year. Authoritative astronomers consider them the most serious threat to the Earth.

- You have collected a huge amount of evidence of your theory about the existence of a developed civilization. What do you expect in the future?

- Everything indicates that the person is older than was considered. Knowledge of ancient people in the field of geometry and astronomy were much broader than we thought. In America, there are skillfully created monuments, very complex from an engineering point of view. Areas that archaeologists have not studied before could be a hotbed of advanced civilization. Constantly there are new evidence that these territories were not settled the way we thought earlier. What happens in science is called a paradigm shift.

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