Fuzzy Necromancer wrote:Also, just...I find it dubious that this super-advanced pre-historic civilization would be white, when most of the human population were still pretty concentrated in Africa way back when.
That depends on what you consider "human population". In the broader sense, there are plenty of non-brown people around for a lot of the time. For example, there's quite a stretch of time, where there were more H.Neanderthalensis around, than H.Sapiens.
As for ancient civilizations that flew into the heavens. Just no. It's an interesting thought and thought-play, but it's just not possible. The lack of infrastructure and broader governmental organization makes it impossible and if such things existed, we would have had found proof by now. There may be the odd "advanced" civilization around here or there, not yet known and burried on the ocean floor or underneath tons of dirt, but nothing that is more advanced than a stone-age city-state that did farming way before everyone else did. Any sort of higher metallurgy and technology leaves behind some quite obvious traces, both in terms of items, obvious infrastructure or human settlements. You see, technology is not what most games make you think it is. There's, to a degree, a certain linearity in techological development. You simply can not invent a spaceflight-capable rocket, before you figured out how to make certain unnatural metals. Without steel, you are not going to be able to build facilities that can fabricate aluminium for example. Without being able to refine iron, you are not going to create steel. You are not going to mine iron without having at least bronze tools already (though sub-saharan Africa needs to be closer inspected in that regard, as they somehow managed to skip the bronze-age and worked iron by 3k BCE somehow) and so on and on. All this would leave obvious traces in the ground and all this can not be faciilitated by a simple city-state. There need to be trade-lanes to get access to rare materials. Tin for example, to create bronze, doesn't exactly lay around everywhere. There's a reason the big bronze-age civlizations all sprouted up in the eastern mediterrenean. Mycene, Egypt, the Minoans and the Hittites, had access to tin. Everyone else in the mediterranean did not.
J!! wrote:well, who says they'd have to be homo-sapiens sapiens? why not homo-sapiens neanderthalensis?
Same as above. We would just know, we would see that they could do that. It would be impossible to overlook.
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