I love the idea that there might have been fully technological civilizations of humans on earth that have been totally lost to time. I know that the Maya were not that, but go back 10,000 years maybe, who knows?
if you broke humanity down into one archaeological find per 10k years you probably wouldn't think we had much of a society either.
If dinosaurs ever became like us, there should be a clear layer in the rock where they started throwing their trash on the ground.
I mean it's still quite unlikely though.
(Again - probably not)
What we do probably underestimate is how advanced ancient hominids were. They mostly worked with materials that decay like wood, plants, and animal skin. But we're slowly learning that they were more advanced than we used to believe.
Right, that's that done, now, onto the 3 centuries of murder, rape, pillage, inquisition, and subjugation.
It was meaningless time. If we’d gotten to our current development level ~5000 years ago, we’d just be writing these same comments next to calendars that had their zero sent to ~7000 years ago.
Half of Europeans that died during the great plague would’ve benefited, for example. Most people who were born in the past 150 years would still be alive.
let your imagination have a go at it.
I threw out the Great Plague, or something similar, as an example of something that wouldn’t have occurred because science would have addressed these types of diseases. Covid today would be easily treatable in a more advanced society
Clearly history wouldn’t play out the same way. The point is that today’s society would be much more advanced
There could be dozens of these sites
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