Re: Note - Archeological Evidence Pointing More To Ice-Age Super-Civs

On 4/11/25 3:41 AM, Siri Cruz wrote:
> 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.


   Teeth last the longest (and can be dated and DNA'ed).

   But, so far, no signs of 200,000 year old root canals.

   Indeed even the mummified elites of old Egypt often
   show signs of very nasty dental problems.

   On the flip, not all kinds of sci/tech advance equally.
   Poor communications and a strong trend towards keeping
   secrets inside guilds amplified this problem until
   very recently. Medicine could only advance so far
   until the advent of good antibacterials/antibiotics.