R.J.'s non-fiction works include » TheMegaBlog.com, an online chronicle of underwater archaeology activities in the Caribbean. He hasa also contributed numerous articles on PC- and scuba-related topics in both print and e-magazines.       He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with dual majors in Physics and Mathematics and he is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. His interests include computing, alternative history, underwater archaeology and scuba diving. INFLUENCES: Clive Cussleer, Graham Hancock ABOUT THE SERIES Seeds of Civilization novels are loosely based on the theories of Graham Hancock and others who believe that highly developed civilizations existed on Earth thousands of years before the time currently put forth by mainstream Anthropology.      The series accepts Hancock’s theories, in principal, but goes on to explore the questions of how and where these ancient civilizations might have acquired their advanced knowledge of mathematics, astronomy and architecture. For example, why were the Maya of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula able to predict the exact time of a solar eclipse more than 500 years before the “advanced thinkers” of Europe discovered that the Earth isn’t actually flat?      If Hancock’s theory is correct—that an advanced civilization existed on Earth 9,000 years ago—one has to wonder whether there were even earlier civilizations, each lost to some global cataclysmic event. What if the Mesopotamians weren’t really Earth’s first civilization but merely the sprout from a recently planted Seed?