Could an Ancient Advanced civilization have existed - Is there evidence?
Until recently the general consensus was that civilization only occurred around 5000BC but more and more evidence seems to be coming out that humans were more advanced longer ago than was ever previously believed. It's usually assumed that human progress is linear but even in the recent past this hasn't been the case when you had great civilizations like the Roman or Greek empires that were followed by hundreds or thousands of years with development going backwards and disappearance of technology previously used.
There are various discoveries that I think could demonstrate that ancient advanced civilizations could have existed. As a scientist I know that proof requires evidence but also over time much material that would give certainty will have decayed or been destroyed so much is likely to be from secondary sources or by observation of changes. Firstly Gobekli Tepe has been shown to be around 12,000 years old and clearly needed a lot of knowledge and organisation to be able to construct the stone circles. Until the late 1990s this was unknown and would have been dismissed as impossible in the timeframe now accepted.
We also have the discovery of Denisovans purely by DNA who were unknown 10 years ago. If one group of human ancestors can remain invisible to us until such recent times then it seems to me that it's entirely possible that other ancestors are also unknown. The analysis of DNA is also throwing up other distant ancestors which could also give more details of our history.
With discoveries such as Archaeologists find earliest evidence of bread and also finding earlier evidence of domestication of wheat for farming than previously thought it's wide open that there is still much that we don't know about.
Even now we have a wide mix of civilization at different stages of development from what might be considered advanced technology with computers and space flight alongside hunter gatherers living in remote areas around the world such as Brazilian rainforests, in Africa or Aborigines. Very similar patterns may have existed historically and finding one group that were stone age shouldn't preclude other civilizations existing at different stages of development.
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| Could these undersea islands be the mystical location of Atlantis or other civilisations erased by sea level rises? |
The rise in sea levels over the last 20,000 years and in last 10,000 in particular are likely to have erased much evidence of coastal civilization that may have existed. After seeing the above maps on a recent flight it was eye opening how much low lying land is now below sea level and could have been inhabited historically. Areas such as Doggerland in the North sea between UK and Europe are known to have been inhabited and often generate archaeological finds when the sea bed is dredged. Similar situations are likely elsewhere and sea level rises would certainly explain the widespread flood myths across many civilizations and religions.
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