Friday, July 15, 2011

Is it possible that a high-tech modern civilization prior to Mesopotamian civilization existed (edited Q)?

I don't mean to beat on a dead horse, but I have yet to get an answer regarding my question on the Earth's soil layer history. I've always been amazed with the ancient super structures that have lasted through thousands of years located around the globe, I've always thought that the Earth had gone through a lot of tectonic transformations through the ages that involved earthquakes, tsunamis, global-wide flooding (ala-2012 movie), or even the cataclysmic effects brought on by asteroid collisions with the planet Earth. With Mesopotamian civilization finding root in 3100 BC (according to Wikipedia) and paleontological evidence pointing to prehistoric life that included the observation of primate development, among other organisms evolving through the ages, could there have been civilizations that were peaking/or at their climax in terms of advancement in the sciences/technology between the prehistoric era and the earliest recorded history as represented by Mesopotamia? The thing that really prompted me to ask this question was the idea that the development of modern technology has accelerated exponentially for the past 200 years. Now to think about whatever happened between 10,000 BC and 3,500 BC, that's about 6,500 years. Imagine, 200 years in 6,500 years. If indeed land masses/continents are susceptible to inundations given overwhelmingly powerful tremors (tsunamis) then it might be possible that advanced civilizations prior to Mesopotamia would have been wiped out around the globe at that period. The only evidences left would be the chiseled stones of superstructures, which of course would eventually be weathered away anyway by time, through at least thousands of years. Any form of database of all human knowledge would've have been stored in libraries (paper) or data banks (non-paper techniques), which could have all been wiped out and rendered useless for people looking to recover their lost civilizations. I wouldn't expect any single man or woman to have had a monopoly of all that could have been known/discovered, perhaps only a tinge of this and that, which could have allowed people to start-over with the basics in math, the sciences, technology, etc. This is also the reason why we are extremely amazed with the ingenuity of the ancient civilizations, in the construction of the structures and the technology that we think they had employed then. If paper was even developed to be used as a means to record all the knowledge of ancient inhabitants' modern history then, well we all know paper doesn't last long, especially when wet and worn out through the ages, so there would be barely a trace. To put it figuratively, it was as if the reset button had been pressed on human civilization. Furthermore, explorers of the ancient worlds tampering with these discoveries, assuming there were expeditions through 3,500 to 500 by ancient explorers, them tampering or "handling" evidences wouldn't have helped preserve the relics anyway. Also, if this "fictional" civilizations I had in mind were able to harness electricity and even develop their own information structure similar to the Internet, then obviously traces of the structures and facilities that were built then would be hard to find today if indeed the Earth was flooded or erased by some major catastrophic event to oblivion. Anyway, before the question gets out of hand and sound crazier (I know it already borders on ridiculous) I guess the most realistic question that might serve as the first step for this inquiry of mine is, "Are there pedological data that say otherwise?" and "Based on soil layers, can it be verifiable if the planet Earth had experienced massive flooding/inundations, heating, or any type of forceful deluge during a certain period of its 4.54 billion year history (according to Wiki)?" I am hoping that the age-tracking techniques of the Earth sciences would be able to shed light if indeed there have been delineating/detectable periods of extreme earth conditions. I'm just so curious about the experts' thoughts! Thanks for the patience!

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