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Unveiling the past of humanity: an open debate thread!
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[quote:Montblanc:MV8yNTIwNzUzXzQzNjEwMDAwXzVGNzI0M0RE] AC 56336675 thank you for your perfect definition of civilizational dawn. Those seafaring settlers you mention are they related to the phoenicians maybe? I have read somewhere (wikipedia I think) that sumerians also settled in shores of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers but that they came originally from the north, modern Turkey likely. There is also a lot we don't know about the aryan people, who, according to many respectable sources are responsible for the oldest civilization built on the shores of the Ganges river, they were also settlers who came from the north. There appears to exist a pattern of migrants from a vast area comprising parts of modern Turkey, Iraq, Iran and regions along the shores of the black sea who already possessed developed elements of civilized character and it seems that those people settled at a time several distant regions (fertile lands around great rivers from at least modern India to the mediterranean coast). Another interesting point in my perspective is the fact that the more you go back in time the less languages you find. All european languages can be ultimately traced to a single source (Tower of Babel story) which means that there might have been an age we don't know of, prior to the oldest known civilizations, where a more vast civilization could have flourished. This would explain similarities between civilizations from different time periods and separated by vast distances (long lasting cultural inheritance?). Consider also the possibility of such civilizations having developed between the last ice ages and the flood myths spread throughout many cultures. Is it not possible then that a polar cap melting raised the ocean levels enough to flood prosperous cultures flourishing near the sea thus erasing their vestiges? It could also be an explanation for all the oldest known civilizations to have appeared near rivers but not particularly close to the sea (consequence of a traumatic collective experience from a cataclysmic event?). You are right there is a lot we don't know, but, I doubt that holding completely rigid views or dogmas about the unknown pastis the proper way to understand the missing pieces. PS: I am well aware my first posts steemed of ignorance and I know I suck at making threads as well, even so, you shouldn't be so quick to judge others that way for you might end up looking like the fool. [/quote]
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I am starting this thread to provide an open minded discussion on a theme that fascinates me even more than space, for me it is the first frontier, the vast wall of darkness that is what we call Pre-History.
* If you happen to come across this thread and wish to add something to this discussion please do pin it, I will be sure post some interesting links soon, thank you.*
Perhaps it is due to the fact that it is hard to find any kind of consensus about anything that is older than Sumerian civilization much less any credible and definitive piece of literature about that long period of time. After all not only is it a much longer period than that of known history the sources for its study are relatively scarce.
But let us not despair about it. Though the lack of investment and interest on this most honouring, although hard to profit from, field of study has and is seriously hindering it's advancement when comparing to the most pragmatic fields of science little by little more materials arise from the shadow awaiting for our examination to shed light over the darkness of the past.
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