The 10,000 year old civilization which was more advanced than us, page 19

reply to post by Bldrvgr

The bottom line is I base my views on what has been found and studied so far and you base your views on what has not been found yet or maybe never will.

If we did find something that would lead us in the direction that civilization was more advance than us 10,000 years ago, or that we have advanced to a modern state a number of times in the past just to fall back to the stone age I would quickly chance my views. I’m not arguing with you on whether these are possibilities since possibilities are endless, and even a fish like earth walking race that lived in a modern civilization state two million years ago is also a possibility, so yes I agree your views are possibilities.

Hell even evolution is a “theory” but it has more empirical data backing it up then anything other theory has as support. Does this mean we stop looking, no we continue to study and search to either change this theory or fine tune it into a fact.

For me to agree with you a race would need to be very large (billions) with advance communication abilities, or a smaller isolated race that was linked to an advance alien race, or a civilization that was something other than Homo sapiens and became extinct.

I don't think homo sapiens in small isolated groups had the ability to advance very fast, so this is why when we look back at the ice age when it is suggested we were very low in population our advancements were either extremely slow or even halted until our population had the ability to grow and trade/communication was established across many cultures.

Going back farther than the ice age our population looked, based on data so far, to have been more tribe like nomads for 100,000s (millions) of years.

When we look not that far in the past we see that advancement was not universal across the whole human race, many cultures did one or two things much better than other cultures, and it was not until we had the ability to trade these advancement back and forth have we really started on a more modern era.

So looking at great ancient civilizations in our past they only got that way by either having the best trade routes of their time, or they advance by war across expansive areas of the continents. In both of these cases they were able to collect advancements from many different cultures that were good in a few areas.

This is just how we work, and to suggest we had the ability in the past to advance in all directions as we do today but in small isolated cultures we are talking about a more super human race with extremely better capabilities than what we are/have.

[edit on 15-4-2009 by Xtrozero]