And there oldest settlements were submerged at the end of the last ice age.
Funny thing: in a semi-arid or arid climate humble mud bricks make a dandy construction material but where there are annual monsoons ... not so much. The subcontinent may have simply had a reason to more generally adopt stone construction earlier. Even when dealing with Egyptian civilization most of everything is still buried, so who knows what is under the Sahara?
Underwater structures offshore speculatively increases the date to pre-ice age, at least 12,000 years.
I laughed at the last two bullet points of the intro to the article:
They now believe the civilisation is around 8,000 years old,
and,
It is thought climate change may not have destroyed the civilisation
Sooo... the civilization dates to about 6,000 BC and climate change didn’t destroy it.
Ahem, if 40 straight days and nights of rain resulting in a big flood isn’t climate change, what is?
Interesting post. Something to follow.
Fast forward and its the English colonizing India and not vice-versa.
Something that liberals should consider when dealing with the Islamic world.
Evidence of upper paleolithic civilization located in coastal areas during the last glacial period between 24,500 BCE and an abrupt rise in sea level 12,500 BCE is submerged, so clearly such civilization does not exist.
The civilizations were founded by “Ancient Aliens” aka Bigfoot.(I could not resist.)
Well, the RigVeda does have some almost sci-fi stuff in it.
...DRINK..Y..OUR..OVA..×÷=%INE..
Mystery text from hieroglyphic text. Probably will never know it’s true significance. :|
Interesting notion.
Egypt gets all the publicity because of the gold and the statues and the pyramids and the mummies, but the Indus Civilization may have been home to a far more ancient and wiser people.
"The cradle of human civilization may well have been the prehistoric lowlands of the Southeast Asian peninsula, rather than the Middle East. Since those lowlands ‘sank’ beneath the seas thousands of years ago (actually drowned by rising sea levels), humanity has remained unaware of their possible significance up through the early 21st century"