As I have aged, I try to be open to recognizing belief systems which did not stand the test of life experience. There has been a 180 degree flip on numerous previous dogmatic beliefs. My understanding of the human story required a reset. Some (Graham Handcock) concur with my assertion that a great deal of we have been taught about human history is conjecture and opinion, by ignorance and / or design: archeologists and geologists have made massive miscalculations. Even the Smithsonian admits that we don’t know who our (direct) evolutionary ancestors were. The human-like footprint found in Crete suggests our origins may go back much further than academia has previously imagined.
This 5.7 million year old footprint was found in Trachilos, Crete, and published findings are in the Proceedings of the Geologist Association. The footprint is unique for in spite of its great age, it is agreed that it is similar to ours.
A recent National Geographic article argued that humans may be 80,000 years older than previously thought. A persistent previous assumption was that the oldest human was 195,000 years of age based on bones fragments discovered in Africa. Then with the discovery of Gademotta and later the Jebel Irhoud bones (Morroco) and their stone implements these dates were revised further back to 275,000 to 350,000 years. Following this, a recent human specimen found is believed to be 2.8 million years old. But recently scientists from the University of Toronto have found what they believe are 7.2 million year old "pre-human” remains in Greece and Bulgaria. In 2009 I visited this region and these caves in the Balkans, and they hauntingly seem to cry out "ancient early human habitation". Evidence from this ancient 6 million year old time frame means that the “cradle of civilization” is in parts of modern-day Europe, not Africa!
David Talbott, a comparative mythologist whose work offers a radical new vantage point on the origin of ancient culturally, themes and symbols believes, as I - that civilizations and populations have risen and fallen over cycles of 10's of thousands of years. We see the remnants of the earlier human civilization in ancient settlements in Mexico, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Peru, and Indonesia.
Many numerous and eerily similar ancient myths from indigenous peoples around the world describe cycles of human experience on this planet. Upon further research, the most recent previous advanced civilization upon Earth was approximately 17,000 years ago. It was likely much more advanced than today’s civilization. The post ice - age site of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, possible pre-ice age sites of Baalbek in Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Yucatan peninsula, Peru, and across the Pacific with undersea findings in Japan. Where where in Somoa , Indonesia and China huge pyramids have been "discovered". A few millions of years is room enough for numerous advances and declines in cycles of 10's of thousands of years.
I may surmise that the demise of previous civilizations may have been cosmic, or may have coincided with a time when humans of the day had tremendous advances in technology (pyramids), huge population growth, exploitation of the planet, and stopped "honouring" the soil, vegetation, water, air, and non human life. Is this great hubris which may have frequently caused the end of other great civilizations that came before? Perhaps they even foresaw their inevitable end, and tried to "message" or preserve their knowledge for the next cycle high of human civilizations.
But alas: we are ignorant. Through SETI, we search the cosmos for alien communications but fail to recognize much less prioritize our ancient ancestors communications / stories with an open mind.
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