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originally posted by: Lab4Us
My take on all of this is that we have all been here before, if not even further as far as technology goes. Then a cataclysmic event reset everything and somehow the legends (based on fact) were created referring to Atlantis. Underwater due to floods following ice ages. Climate change notwithstanding, I believe it’s a cycle the earth and its’ population relives over and over, regardless of millenia between each cataclysmic event. And I don’t think any cataclysmic event will ever destroy 100% of the population, unless the planet is actually destroyed. Thus, the right survivors (those aware of technology) carry stories of advanced technology into the “new” future.
originally posted by: schuyler
originally posted by: toms54
a reply to: SLAYER69
Someone came to North America during the Bronze Age to get copper out of Michigan. If it wasn't Atlantis, who?
Could you please provide some more info on that? I heard at one point that it could have been the Romans. Fascinating anyway.
originally posted by: schuyler
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: SLAYER69
a reply to: Kandinsky
See, I agree and don't debate known history. I like to delve into the period of unknown prehistory.
Pre-cradle civs are my favorite targets.
You should probably be using the term "culture" instead of "civilization."
That gets at the heart of the matter, I think. Technically the word "civilization" implies cities, but more broadly it usually implies and advanced stage of culture and technology, including writing. A "culture," on the other hand, can include the way of life of stone age hunter-gatherers with none of that. Anthropologically speaking, it's a much broader, more inclusive term. The biggest question I want answered is at what level this previous culture/civilization was at? What WAS their technology? How do you explain these worldwide megaliths when nothing much else survived? All we have are some OOPARTS that are difficult to place in context. People jump to all kinds of conclusions about them, but without the archeological context they aren't worth much.
What we really need is another ice age to suck back the water and uncover this stuff.
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: schuyler
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: SLAYER69
a reply to: Kandinsky
See, I agree and don't debate known history. I like to delve into the period of unknown prehistory.
Pre-cradle civs are my favorite targets.
You should probably be using the term "culture" instead of "civilization."
That gets at the heart of the matter, I think. Technically the word "civilization" implies cities, but more broadly it usually implies and advanced stage of culture and technology, including writing. A "culture," on the other hand, can include the way of life of stone age hunter-gatherers with none of that. Anthropologically speaking, it's a much broader, more inclusive term. The biggest question I want answered is at what level this previous culture/civilization was at? What WAS their technology? How do you explain these worldwide megaliths when nothing much else survived? All we have are some OOPARTS that are difficult to place in context. People jump to all kinds of conclusions about them, but without the archeological context they aren't worth much.
What we really need is another ice age to suck back the water and uncover this stuff.
AFAIK, there ARE no unexplained megalithic constructions. Maybe some of the stuff on Malta that can't be dated, I haven't kept up with it because it's a dead end.
Everyone wants to believe the oceans have covered the evidence, but I know why they have to have it this way - because there IS no evidence on land.
So we go through this dance where people get to pretend that sea level rising covered up all the evidence while the ancient and unknown civilization just stood there for thousands of years until they drowned.
Harte
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: schuyler
originally posted by: toms54
a reply to: SLAYER69
Someone came to North America during the Bronze Age to get copper out of Michigan. If it wasn't Atlantis, who?
Could you please provide some more info on that? I heard at one point that it could have been the Romans. Fascinating anyway.
No evidence of it. Just numbers made up out of thin air concerning the amount of copper mined in antiquity in Michigan.
Harte
originally posted by: toms54
Even very old building that is explained often appears to be built upon older foundations that are not explained.