This stuff really fascinates me. Like you say, anomalous archaeological finds pop up all around the world, and most are relegated to the fringes of science, rather than receive the sort of serious study they merit.
Anything dug up that doesn’t fit the pre-ordained and agreed-upon story of human habitation and civilization is automatically ruled “impossible” by the so-called experts.
Ever hear of Michael Cremo? He wrote a book called “Forbidden Archaeology” about a decade back, which is all about these incredible finds.
For many, there is little so terrifying as the thought that this might not be the first time humanity has risen technologically, only to fall from that great height to knapping flint and hunting with sharpened sticks.
The more complex a technology, the more fragile it is, the more difficult to maintain.
We are almost there, to the point where the skills which developed the last 50 years of advances are beyond the person working in their garage workshop, and those who could build even a basic radio from scratch are very few and far between...
My favorites were the hollow spheres formed from connecting two hemispheres along a shaped seam, found in coal vanes which estimated the spheres to have been more than a million years old.
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It is quite disappointing not to to be able to view photographs of whatever they found.
If what the Bible says is true, that people lived quite a long time before the flood, and it is silent on how many other people there were in the world besides Adam and Eve, I often wonder what was the technological level of the worlds civilizations pre-flood. Everybody assumes the typical low technology of the post flood period, but I wonder...
I once read that one guy has a theory that life on earth has advanced even more than we have more than once but was almost completely destroyed and started over. There is the tale that some miners digging in a mountain came upon a modern skeleton. The mountain has been estimated to go back 150 million years. This was in the 1800’s and the skeleton is at some university in California.