I'm working on an alternate theory to the Ancient Astronaut theory(just for fun). In it I state that Humanity is much older than we thought and that we have reached different levels of civilization before something happens to knock us back down where we have to start over. I state that Humanity only requires between 15,000 and 10,000 years to advance from a hunter/gatherer society to the technological point that we have reached today and even beyond. However, each peak of our separate civilizations has been met with an unexpected extinction level event that dwindled our numbers to a few thousand at most. All is lost. Humanity either barely survived or sent their people out to the stars to continue the species.
Eventually Humanity relearns the basics such as hunting, creating fire and eventually agriculture. We move on to societies such as the one we live in today, so confident and sure of our everlasting hold on the world before, once again, we're wiped out by an extinction level event. Arrogance unmakes us every time.
Now, I present to you my wild theory's poorly researched and completely weak evidence.
Evidence:
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Basically, the Ancient astronaut evidence but without the aliens.
What could have happened and could it happen again?
The amount of written history that we have doesn't even cover a second of the [LINK REMOVED]. That link shows the natural events that have occurred, could have occurred and may occur again. The Earth didn't go into a stasis field when we learned to read and write; extinction events are still happening. The[LINK REMOVED] erupted about 75k years ago and almost wiped us Humanity. The Earth endures constant climate changes to include our last great ice age that had North America covered in mile high glaciers. At any moment, an asteroid could slam into the Earth, a coronal mass ejection could fry most life away, a super volcano could erupt and kill hundreds of millions... events we haven't even witnessed and are ignorant of could take place. Then there's the man made events that could wipe us out such as nuclear war.
Every time our civilization was wiped out, we went into survival mode. Reading, writing, science... "luxury" thinking will be put aside in exchange for survival thinking. History will be passed on through stories, stories that all the survivors of the world will share(How the world ended, religious beliefs, what man had accomplished). Over the generations these similar stories will evolve into their own and history will have changed. These could become the beliefs that form new religions and the foundations for future societies.
You may wonder why nothing was left of ancient man's civilizations and I would say there is! The Great Pyramids, Easter Island, Stonehenge, Puma Punku and Nan Madol just to name a few. What has the ability to weather time best? Stone! What will be left over from our current civilization in ten thousand years? Stone! Think Mount Rushmore, weathered, eroded and cracking, stumbled upon by some human explorers tens of thousands of years from now. They'll be mystified and wonder how primitive people could have made such a thing? Some will claim ancient aliens must have helped because how else could primitive people carve that? Obviously things such as glass and nuclear waste from very advanced civilizations would remain, unless they became so intelligent that they cleaned their world up before being wiped out. Or there could be a 100,000 years of Humans barely surviving extinction level event after event. No time to build a great civilization, so nothing remains from the last great society to the next. Then we get into a calm period such as the one we are in and we flourish.
Your role:
Tear this theory to pieces! Poke all the holes in it you can. Try to avoid any arguments that are based on other theories, assumptions or incomplete works. For instance, do not try to use fossil records to disprove Ancient Man since we're still working man's evolution and only have the oldest human fragments to go on. We can't disprove Ancient Man with fossil records if the only thing we have is a very old human skull, and something older that is close to a human skull.
Ok, have at it =)
Eventually Humanity relearns the basics such as hunting, creating fire and eventually agriculture. We move on to societies such as the one we live in today, so confident and sure of our everlasting hold on the world before, once again, we're wiped out by an extinction level event. Arrogance unmakes us every time.
Now, I present to you my wild theory's poorly researched and completely weak evidence.
Evidence:
[Had to remove my links because I don't have enough post for links]
Basically, the Ancient astronaut evidence but without the aliens.
What could have happened and could it happen again?
The amount of written history that we have doesn't even cover a second of the [LINK REMOVED]. That link shows the natural events that have occurred, could have occurred and may occur again. The Earth didn't go into a stasis field when we learned to read and write; extinction events are still happening. The[LINK REMOVED] erupted about 75k years ago and almost wiped us Humanity. The Earth endures constant climate changes to include our last great ice age that had North America covered in mile high glaciers. At any moment, an asteroid could slam into the Earth, a coronal mass ejection could fry most life away, a super volcano could erupt and kill hundreds of millions... events we haven't even witnessed and are ignorant of could take place. Then there's the man made events that could wipe us out such as nuclear war.
Every time our civilization was wiped out, we went into survival mode. Reading, writing, science... "luxury" thinking will be put aside in exchange for survival thinking. History will be passed on through stories, stories that all the survivors of the world will share(How the world ended, religious beliefs, what man had accomplished). Over the generations these similar stories will evolve into their own and history will have changed. These could become the beliefs that form new religions and the foundations for future societies.
You may wonder why nothing was left of ancient man's civilizations and I would say there is! The Great Pyramids, Easter Island, Stonehenge, Puma Punku and Nan Madol just to name a few. What has the ability to weather time best? Stone! What will be left over from our current civilization in ten thousand years? Stone! Think Mount Rushmore, weathered, eroded and cracking, stumbled upon by some human explorers tens of thousands of years from now. They'll be mystified and wonder how primitive people could have made such a thing? Some will claim ancient aliens must have helped because how else could primitive people carve that? Obviously things such as glass and nuclear waste from very advanced civilizations would remain, unless they became so intelligent that they cleaned their world up before being wiped out. Or there could be a 100,000 years of Humans barely surviving extinction level event after event. No time to build a great civilization, so nothing remains from the last great society to the next. Then we get into a calm period such as the one we are in and we flourish.
Your role:
Tear this theory to pieces! Poke all the holes in it you can. Try to avoid any arguments that are based on other theories, assumptions or incomplete works. For instance, do not try to use fossil records to disprove Ancient Man since we're still working man's evolution and only have the oldest human fragments to go on. We can't disprove Ancient Man with fossil records if the only thing we have is a very old human skull, and something older that is close to a human skull.
Ok, have at it =)
