What if there was an ancient civilization dating back before science records/believes?

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Homeslice

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Man made structures/items can be absorbed by the earth within relatively small amount of time, maybe the burned their dead and did not re emerge or were far from others;
is pretty fun to imagine if nothing else and it is possible regardless of what science says. They are not all knowing;
btw; **** the government !
 
If you can not understand that this world is far, far more older than what christianity teaches, then you are just not listening to anything but dogma. Proof has been found that we go back much further than any Adam and Eve, and oh yes, that talking snake with which Eve had an affair, and it was called taking a bite out of the apple, and now all of you believers are sinner because of Eve's unfaithfulness to ole Adam. Good luck in being a sinner all of your life when there is nothing in the world that is a sin, other than a made up word to use to frightened the sheet out of you.
 
"Science" isn't a unified institution which makes pronouncements that it expects to accepted uncritically.

There are many archaeologists and anthropologists looking for earlier agrarian, settled cultures. The evidence points to the middle east and fertile crescent (Mesopotamia) being the earliest, at around 8000 years ago. However, most agree that the process of shifting from hunter/gatherers to farmers/herders probably began around ten thousand years ago, as the last Ice Age was ending.

One of the main sites of investigation is the original shoreline of the Black sea, which was once just a lake at the bottom of a lush valley. As the sea levels rose ten thousand years ago, the whole area suffered catastrophic flooding as the waters of the Mediterranean poured in. Many believe that a settled culture living there pre-flood, could have given rise to both the myths of Atlantis and Noah/other flood tales so common in the traditions of all the Mediterranean cultures.
 
The "what if" part is easy. If it was, it was. If it wasn't, it wasn't. And science, being nothing more than "knowing" (from Latin scientio, I know), would learn and study and investigate - and maybe eventually would acknowledge - this civilization, if one were found.
 
Stone tools are pretty much eternal. So are the foundations of stone structures. Bones are actually very impermanent and go away rapidly in acidic soils.

Our current culture will actually leave less behind than many ancient civilizations. High-strength concrete turns to dust in a few centuries. Metal rusts. However we do have one thing that will be around for future civilizations to study: plastic.

Ten thousand years into the future our successors will find fossilized disposable diapers and Dasani bottles. Plastics that are not exposed to sunlight are basically eternal. There will be whole beaches composed of ground up plastic until continental subduction gets rid of all our crap.

Actually there are two things. Yucca Mountain and other nuclear waste storage sites will still be somewhat poisonous until the sun goes nova.
 
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