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re: Ancient civilizations. Y or N?
Posted on 5/4/24 at 3:32 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
Posted on 5/4/24 at 3:32 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
Modern humans have been around for a few hundred thousand years.
Recorded “history” as it were starts about 5500 years ago.
As you mention, Göbekli Tepe was inhabited about 12,000 years ago. It wasn’t discovered until 1963 and excavated until the mid 1990s. One of the things to consider was at the time it was inhabited, there were only an estimated 1 million people in the world.
So to answer, are there other places in the world like that we have yet to discover? I’d say probably. Is is possible that some of those places had “technology” that places we already know about didn’t have until much later, sure. Is it possible that they had some more advanced forms of writing and recorded history? Again, possible.
But I don’t see something where we find out that highly advanced civilizations which surpassed our current overall knowledge and technology existed.
Recorded “history” as it were starts about 5500 years ago.
As you mention, Göbekli Tepe was inhabited about 12,000 years ago. It wasn’t discovered until 1963 and excavated until the mid 1990s. One of the things to consider was at the time it was inhabited, there were only an estimated 1 million people in the world.
So to answer, are there other places in the world like that we have yet to discover? I’d say probably. Is is possible that some of those places had “technology” that places we already know about didn’t have until much later, sure. Is it possible that they had some more advanced forms of writing and recorded history? Again, possible.
But I don’t see something where we find out that highly advanced civilizations which surpassed our current overall knowledge and technology existed.
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Posted on 5/5/24 at 6:50 pm to lsusa
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Modern humans have been around for a few hundred thousand years.
Recorded “history” as it were starts about 5500 years ago.
I doubt we will be able to push that back any further, at least with the technology we have today. I say that because most anything older than 10,000-20,000 years ago has either been wiped out by glaciers, buried by desert sands, or volcanic activity, or earthquakes, or simply eroded away by the march of time.
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