>Civilisation tends to develop around waterways, coastal areas and rivers.
>There has been quite a bit in the news over the last few years about ruins
>just off the coast of places like Egypt and Japan. It isnt impossible or
>improbable that there could be cities under the sea, just out of our sight.
>Im sure you are aware that the age of the Sphynx is under assault. And the
>arguments are pretty interesting and self consistant, true or not. The
>timeline for the first Americans looks to be modified somewhat radically.
There were a few scholarly book published a few years ago challenging the
timeline. However their thesis is that the dates are too OLD, and adjusts
them about 150-200 years forward. One of the more significant ramifications
of this is that it means that the Greek "Dark Ages" did not exist!
If anyone is interested I'll get the titles. Only one is currently in
print, and available from Amazon UK.
As for the "lack of progress" and ancient peoples, one thing that we must
remember is that we live in one of the most tremendous eras of change in
history. There WAS change amongst mezolithic and neolithic man, but the
period of change was not as rapid as we are used to. And even just small
changes can mean tremendous benefits for the people living in the time. The
transition from stone and obsidian tools to copper (Chalcolithic Era)
rendered great benefits to neolithic people, just as the transition from
copper to bronze conferred tremendous benefits to ancient peoples.
>I agree with you here. I suggest that civilisation may have been around 10K
>longer than we are taught. But none of these proposed civilisations was as
>advanced as say Egypt.
As I said in a previous post, are we talking about a CIVILIZATION
(characterized by a complex social organization, writing, and the
development of more sophisticated governments and laws) or a CULTURE
(characterized by a simple social organization, simple governmental forms,
and lacking writing). As I said, these words have very specific meanings
and shouldn't be used haphazardly.
Damon.
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