I’ve been binging YouTube the past couple of days, mostly alternative-history stuff, buffered by American-Britain’s-Got-Talent-Idol and its ilk. You know, all the intellectual drivel mixed in with somebody screaming lyrics in lieu of singing – then getting thunderous applause solely based on volume. Sorry, it’s a pet peeve of mine with regard to a lot of the talent shows.
Aaaanyway…
During my foray into the depths of Ancient Aliens and other questionable theories, I found moments of genuine illumination.
No, I don’t buy into spacemen building the pyramids. However, neither do I buy into the current scientific claims that all the great architecture of the ancient world was accomplished with sticks and crude stone implements. I DO absolutely believe the Egyptians built on the works of previous civilizations, possibly including civilizations that lived before the end of the last ice age. After all, homo sapiens have been around a long, long time, an estimated 200,000 years, give or take.
Official science teaches we moved from the stone age, which ended circa 5500 years ago, launching into Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations within the subsequent 1000 years; then went from the pyramids to the moon in a span of 4000 years or so. What would’ve stopped us from following the same trajectory BEFORE the ice age ended, assuming we found a location which could sustain us?
There are absolutely ancient structures around – I know I’ve picked on Gobekli Tepe before, but it’s the one undisputed example of pre-Egyptian pre-Mesopotamian civilization. Even archaeologists agree its age to be circa 9000 B.C., which is on back there into the trailing edge of the last ice age, which ended around 11,700 years ago.
Look it up for yourself. No problem, I’ll wait.
When forced to look at Gobekli Tepe’s timeline, it’s one of those record-scratch moments. The rules just got changed mid-stroke. So for all practical purposes, now science has to acknowledge this civilization was sophisticated enough to build a “temple” complex (let’s face it, science has no idea what it actually is so they have to either call it a temple or a tomb) only about 700 years after the end of the ice age. But hey – it was another 6000 or so years before we saw a rise of the Mesopotamian empire. Everything in between? We just reverted to hunter-gatherers and cave men, since we don’t have any direct evidence to the contrary.
Because, you know, there’s no way we missed the evidence or anything. That only happens with evolutionary examples. (If you haven’t figured out yet, my level of sarcasm is throwing a red light “TILT” error about now.)
Does anybody besides me want to call “Hogwash” on that one?
The only thing I read was fortunately the single most important point of your post:
“Blah blah blah….blah blah blah….blah blah somebody screaming lyrics in lieu of singing – then getting thunderous applause solely based on volume…blah blah….blah blah blah blah blah….”
🙂
Sorry on this one. It was a moment of late-night incoherence LOL.
No need to apologize. “Late-night incoherence” is redundant. You are forgiven 🙂
Sometimes our indicators of civilization are a bit narrow minded. Being able to erect stone structures may well not be the only barometer for human history
True, but it’s unlikely if we erected stone structures that we were cave men with a language on par with “Unga Ooonga”.
Obviously there had to be civilizations that were intelligent enough to sustain life for many years. How else would they have survived? I expect they had forgotten more things that we will ever know. Based on our current world situations, it shouldn’t take long to destroy the current civilization and start over again. Our American Indians knew enough to honor Mother Earth and the gifts she gives us and look what we have done to them….
I agree. In the end, the native populations will have the last laugh