Ooooh, not a bad idea...
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 08/07/2020 11:24:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Probably the people of Minneapolis... :)
“So there is hope that things will clear up as long as we don’t regress into idiots”
Yes, but I doubt that DNA will tell us if there were earlier civilizations that got wiped out by glaciation.
They were sunning themselves on top of some cliffs when some tricky monkey-man clubbed 'em out.
I was interested in my Neanderpercentage, had some, but also showing up were the Denisovans, bunches of other archaic DNA. I feel so smug about this. :^)
The DNA bit was just **an example** of new things that have come down the pike that tell us about out history. Sorry if I misled you.
Forgot to include the huge advances in satellite imaging using LIDAR and GPR which is uncovering lost cities all over South and Central America. Part of the problem in the past is we just did not have the tools to look beyond the obvious or what the naked eye can see. Now we are acquiring some of what is need to see into the distant past of human civilization.
But the ice cities of the Neanderthals melted and can never be found :)
However, the comet strikes of 10800 BC is now being heavily researched and many previous mysteries are being solved: why did the mega-fauna disappear? what happened to the Clovis peoples? how did the Younger Dryas (real climate change) start and end?
Graham Hancock’s “America Before” has a section on what it might have been like to have lived through the strikes which likely lasted 100 years; to us, it would be unimaginable horror. But it does explain the worldwide pre-history obsession with astronomy
“Sorry if I misled you.”
No, you didn’t. While I am certainly not a scholar, a lot of those things get posted here, and my battered, tattered brain takes in as much as it can.
SC: Time for you to post Firestone et al.
Ooooh, not a bad idea...
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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