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originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: generik
For example, pyramids, they’re a distinctive shape, so they stand out in ones mind, and they’re also relatively simple to build.
originally posted by: generik
where does one find pyramids for example? not just Egypt, but all over the world. is it coincidence that everyone seems to have built pyramids?
originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: 19Bones79
Not really.
The ability to traverse the sea may be ahead of what we’ve assumed, but the tools aren’t.
Stone tools are what they found.
originally posted by: that1lurker
Wow very interesting. I'd also like to know who they think might have been sailing. I just read an article on evidence of 100k old "human" activity but who knows who it may have been. I believe our true history is still unknown and kept hidden. I often wonder how advanced humans were before Earth got reset.edit on 27-5-2021
Same here. There's no telling what's been destroyed thousands of millennia ago that we'll never know about. What's really buried below the land that's buried miles below the ice in sub-zero extreme environment in Antarctica? All the big dunes in the scorching hot desert? So many questions, so little knowledge. extra DIV
originally posted by: jjkenobi
Every ancient man discovery like this continues to blow away the Neanderthal evolution timelines. Keep them coming.
originally posted by: Nyiah
I found the last part of the article very interesting:
What is particularly interesting, is that the style of the tools closely resembles artifacts from the stone technology known as Acheulean, which originated with pre-human populations in Africa. For decades, the standard hypothesis has been that Acheulean toolmakers reached Europe and Asia via the Middle East, passing mainly through what is now Turkey into the Balkans. The findings in Crete raise the possibility that human migration was not confined to land routes and may have included expansion from Africa across the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain, or from Libya to Crete – a stretch of approximately 200 miles (320 km).
Definitely lends credence to seafaring elsewhere globally. And makes the South American/African trade claims that much more likely (I already think it was very possible, at least between Brazil/West Africa)
originally posted by: ARM1968
The odd thing, really, is the mindset you would need to head out on a raft or canoe into the Mediterranean from anywhere without knowing that you would find land. It is sort of against human nature and quite suicidal, which for early humans would have been somewhat against their instincts for survival.
You just don’t set off on a raft across an ocean which can be quite stormy on a whim, and a number would have to do so in order to create a viable colony.
Obviously it happened and just as obviously those that made it to Crete were in no way ‘advanced’. Crazy when you actually think about it. It would be a bit like us setting off in a starship without knowing if there was anything out there.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
At this point, there are likely human progenitors we haven't even found yet that could have existed for tens of thousands of years. And finding their remains or artifacts after 150,000 years is going to be tough, particularly if they tended to do as we do, which is live on the edges of rivers, lakes and oceans.
originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: 727Sky
I think we're the 3rd or maybe even 4th civilization that's been here on Earth. I think humans walked with dinosaurs millions of years ago and wiped out with the dinos.
originally posted by: 727Sky
Crete has been an Island for an estimated 5 million years so unless there were some amazing swimmers 130,000 years ago...