Man is not 70,000 years old. That's when the diaspora out of Africa began, so there were no modern humans (H. sapiens) in Asia before then. Africa was full of modern humans for perhaps hundreds of thousands of years (but not millions) before that and other now-extinct H. species existed on other continents. The first creatures classified as genus Homo go back about three million years and lived in Africa. Accepting your assertion for the sake of argument, that was not a human civilization. Apes did not exist at all until about thirty million years ago. The first primates did not appear until around sixty million years ago, long after the demise of the dinosaurs.
The landbridge to Sri Lanka was there when the Kings Ravana and Nediyon ruled the Kingdom of Kumari Kandam, they and their people had to flee north when the sea level rose at the end of the Ice Age, circa 1500 B.C. Frag's numbers are predicated upon uniformitarian and Darwinian assumptions, hence "no apes with dinos," and all that other stuff.
The sources in the book are ancient Indian, and the presence of megalithic ruins on the shallow sea floor, from near there, north to Mahabalipuram, corroborates historical kings ruling from megalithic cities during the Ice Age.
Too bad they didn't make a suspension bridge out of it. I wonder if it is wide enough for two way traffic?
It is complete bullshit that this is man-made and dates back to 1,750,000 years ago. We'd be talking about Homo fucking Habilis!
Jumpercable: Yes. A sub-species of Homo habilis which adds "fucking" out of it being exasperated with pseudo-science.
Dude, you really need to learn some science. The broad outlines of evolution are not based on assumptions but revealed in the fossil record. The earliest fossils of animals that were vaguely primate-like are from an era ten million years after the demise of the dinosaurs. It took a long time for a creature that was really nothing more than a glorified sloth to evolve into prosimians and then into monkeys and then into apes. This becomes a logic problem, not a science problem. Saying that apes and dinosaurs could have coexisted is like saying that 2+2 could equal 5. It's not merely wrong, it's illogical. Come back after you've finished a few more years of your education. There are gaps in it the size of a dinosaur from the unremarkable and uncontroversial things you simply have not studied yet.
I'm pretty skeptical. I don't have an substantiated facts that are germain to the topic at hand (I'll google it here in a bit), but if I'm not mistaken, early homonids didn't reach that area of the world 1.7 million years ago. ~String
Do you think we will find fossil records of World Trade Center 100o years from now? How about finding human remains in societies who cremate the bodies? How long human remains will last in a mass grave? 100 years, 100 million years?
Um... but even in the tropics, bones and stones don't. Even cremated bones can be identified (unless they were somehow able to get their kilns above 2500 degrees OR if by some chance they took the extra step of effeciently grinding up the bones into dust). Either way, bones in the tropcs fossilize the same way bones in the temperate regions do. ~String
There were hominids in the region at the time. They weren't human, however. They were Homo erectus. And there is fossil evidence of them. And they didn't cremate their dead, though they may have de-fleshed them if memory serves correct. I recall a journal article somewhere that discussed the tool marks present on H. ergaster or H. eretus (essentially the same species) bones. The bottom line is the region between Sri Lanka and the mainland is shallow and the tombolo that exists today probably was well above sea level to the point that there were mile-wide (or more) stretches of land between them at the end of the last glaciation around 18,000 years ago. There were humans that probably had oral histories at this time. Oral histories get passed on from one generation to the next often by using permanent land forms as mnemonics to create a framework for the main story. Unfortunately, embellishment and exaggeration still creep into the stories as time goes on, turning perhaps real events into myths. What we can tell from Vedic mythology about the region is that people were aware of the tombolo between India and Sri Lanka and probably used it at some point in the past before sea levels rose, inundating all but the highest points.
"End of the last glaciation 18,000 years ago.?" Wow, many say it was more like 10000 B.C. in three stages over several thousand years, and some say it ended circa 1500 B.C., to explain the submerged megaliths in many parts of the world, so you can see that the true date for this is in a state of flux.
