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From: Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Note - Archeological Evidence Pointing More To Ice-Age Super-Civs
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:41:01 -0700
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On 10/4/25 23:53, Borax Man wrote:
> I think part of our modern day assumption, that humans back then were
> not as sophisticated as they actually were, was due to us looking for
> evidence for civilisation where we thought we would find it.  Like
> looking for your keys under the street lamp, not because that is where
> they last where, because that is where the light was best.  Sea levels
> have changed, but it was always easier to excavate on land, where we
> found previous artefacts and evidence.
>
> Not much survives of the past, and our understanding is based on what we
> have been able to uncover, which I think is a fraction of what existed.
> Take for example the antikythera mechanism.  There must have been more
> than one, or at least, there must have been precursors, a technological
> arc that leads to that.  We just haven't found it.
>
> But then, look today.  You'll see iPhones and sleek Apple laptops.  Its
> very, very difficult to stumble across older computers now.  How many
> Millennial's have seen a 1980s microcomputer?  Probably only in a
> museum.  These were ubiquitous, and now you can go years without seeing
> one.  If they disappear within a couple of decades, surely decades of
> civilisation, and centuries after that would have erased so, so much.
> Only stone remains.  We see stone and assume that's all there was.
> Books is another.  Public libraries in the suburbs have few old books.
>
> Methods of social organisation, if not written down AND uncovered, would
> also be lost.
>
> I think our view of history is therefore way off, because we've
> constructed our view based on what survived, which perhaps, isn't enough
> to go on after all.

I am waiting for fossil teeth with root canals.

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