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Originally Posted by pelathais
With regard to "civilizations 10,000 years ago" - that would depend upon what you mean by "civilization." And, I don't put any stock into those "History Channel" programs about Atlantis and "Ancient Astronauts." There's no evidence for anything there.
10,000 years ago human beings were domesticating animals, planting crops, irrigating fields and recording astronomical alignments and events with everything from cave wall paintings to monumental architecture like Stonehenge. The people were as intelligent as any today (or "as unintelligent?"). They just had a much lower level of technology and were still in the process of developing and trying to retain.
The "Sumerian" culture (actually a succession of cultures) started to irrigate on a large scale somewhere around 4500 BC. or about 6500 years ago. The "10,000 years ago" thing is often thrown around because that marks the beginning of the Holocene Epoch - our current climatological and geological epoch. The earth itself bears witness to the fact that some big changes happened around then, most noticeably, it was the end of the most recent glacial maximum (Ice Age). This meant that the earth warmed up a bit and became more rainy in some of the drier continental zones.
... boy, my mind is sure in a ramble today.
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I don't buy the ancient's being primitive as portrayed by the History Channel either. In fact, the ancient people were way smarter than our civilization of people currently are....except for a select chosen few of elitists.
Some think that we will be going into another ice age soon...what say you?
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