title: Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
author:  Graham Hancock 
description: The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory.
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  # Image of the Gods
  
  
  ### Alan Edward Nourse
  
  
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  This etext was produced from The Counterfeit Man More Science  
  Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse published in 1963. Extensive  
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  It was nearly winter when the ship arrived. Pete Farnam never knew if the
  timing had been planned that way or not. It might have been coincidence that
  it came just when the colony was predicting its first real bumper crop of all
  time. When it was all over, Pete and Mario and the rest tried to figure it
  out, but none of them ever knew for s