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There are pottery finds in Japan/Korea which show social maturity ..various earthenware...in the 10,000 bp Window.

and they are **firing the earthenwhere before 6000.

Advancement in culture is probably divergent ...some areas having social groups with limited skill application...
while elsewhere...others are advancing in quicker incriments.

Catastrophism could have knocked mankind back several times...and why we find these garments and pottery idents which do not fit..but RCY/BP as ..and are sure wrenches into the machinery.

one could hypothesis that there just might be one or a few places on Earth where mankind flourished..and stayed seperate from the 30,000-12,000 paleo crowd.

what could be their level of advancement if they where not cut back for several thousand years.

We have the academic data for migrations..the 5MTDNA links..dental...lingustic.

but so to a rich mythology of *Teacher/helpers....visitors from where?

on the mythology thingy..we have 2 tracks..

Erik Von Daniken..the Hebrew account....*OFF World contact.

or the concept of an advanced social net of mankind..sent into migration via catastrophism..they are the teacher/god helpers of old..and established societies from Paleo roots.

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"one could hypothesis that there just might be one or a few places on Earth where mankind flourished..and stayed seperate from the 30,000-12,000 paleo crowd."

The tree-rings indicate that there have been at least 5 severe ( and two less severe ) worldwide catastrophic events in the last 10k years. The whole world was affected terribly. (equalizing events?)

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"or the concept of an advanced social net of mankind..sent into migration via catastrophism..they are the teacher/god helpers of old..and established societies from Paleo roots."

That's pretty much my view.