We keep finding evidence that civilized advances occurred earlier then archeologists have originally believed. You may recall the thesis that mankind has made repeated advancements, only to be thrown back by some catastrophe and have to start over again. Fireston’s book on the catastrophe around 12,900 years ago is an important relatively recent one.
I just got my Nov/Dec issue of “ Archaeology”, and was amazed to see the article “The World’s First Temple: Turkey’s 12,000-year-old stone circles were the spiritual center of a nomadic people.” Looking at the carved stone pillars, I would have thought that they were no more than 5 or 6,000 years old. Could this have been the bouncing back of an advanced group damaged by the Firestone event? Can you post this article for others to see?
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“We keep finding evidence that civilized advances occurred earlier then archeologists have originally believed.”
I’ve been convinced of it since the first time one of my sons made a bow and arrows out of materials at hand, at the age of three or four.
How could the bow *possibly* be such a recent innovation?