Description

Significantly less than fifty-thousand years back mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Subsequently, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as "the best riddle in history," all of the skills and qualities that people value most highly in ourselves seemed already fully-formed, as if bestowed on-us by hidden powers. In Unnatural Graham Hancock sets out to research this strange "before-and-after second" and to find the reality concerning the influences that gave birth to the current individual mind.His mission takes him on the investigator trip in the strikingly beautiful painted caves of ancient France, Spain, and Italy to steel shelters in the hills of South Africa, where he discovers remarkable Stone-Age artwork. He reveals clues that lead him to the depths of the Amazon jungle to consume the potent hallucinogen Ayahuasca with shamans, whose pictures include pictures of "supernatural creatures" just like your pet-human hybrids portrayed in ancient caverns.