Technological Evolution Redux

[mik3cap]

A long time ago, I wrote an entry considering why civilization never seemed older than 5000 B.C. despite the fact that modern man may have existed for 150,000 years.

Well it turns out there's a civilization from at least 7500 B.C. and it could be even older than that... it just happens to be underwater because it was built before the ice from the last Ice Age melted. An antediluvian city! Think about the implications for spreading the tale of the Great Flood over the course of 10,000 years. The drowning of Altantis! The Grand Canyon could have been carved out by a giant flood produced by melted ice caps; maybe there were floods all over the world at the same time. How many other civilizations could be under the water right now? I wonder if anyone has ever made a simulation showing what areas of the Earth would be dry during an Ice Age - what was sea level 10,000 years ago?

More details here. For Carolyn: A BBC link.

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I would love this to be true, but both the links you provided seem a bit...unreliable.

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

Most anthropologists believe that modern man is closer to 50,000 years old, with agriculture being closer to 10,000 years old. (150-100 thousand year old humans were physically similar, but signs of their material culture and genetic analysis suggest language had yet to evolve.)

[rovanda.livejournal.com]

Here's a Wikipedia link.

I can understand it being questionable, but I'm disappointed that there hasn't been more enthusiasm about investigating it.