re: New Finds At Gobekli Tepe

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no matter where they are located in the world, has a Great Flood story.

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But does every civilization have dong holding statues?

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I am still of the opinion that humanity was more far along than originally believed until some cataclysmic event brought it all to a halt

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The progressive of humanity, our advancements, social structure, and technology are not linear.

There’s plenty of documented evidence throughout history of cataclysmic events such as natural disasters, wars, and diseases that wiped out great civilizations and set back their advancements. Often all the knowledge and history of that society were wiped out as well.

The Middle Ages in Europe is an example that’s more recent. Feudal societies were barely scraping by. Meanwhile, they were doing so alongside (and in the shadows) of great Roman engineering feats like aqueducts, roads, and coliseums. Roman relics and other evidence of a great society were all around them, but they knew nothing other than their little hut and the muddy section of a field they farmed.