Hi guys.
Today I want to discuss the potential time period of a lost advanced civilization.
Many independent researchers, including myself, have been talking about the possibility that
such a civilization existed in the distant past.
The main reason for this hypothesis comes from the mind boggling ancient megalithic
sites found all over the world.
These sites are super impressive engineering feats and in certain cases surpass the ability
or comprehension of our modern-day technology.
Some sites show amazing precision cuts, some contain millions of huge stone blocks, some
show highly accurate and uniformed tool marks, which resemble modern machine marks.
Today’s engineers and architects find it very difficult if not impossible to explain
how they were constructed with ancient manual labor.
Even with current construction, mining and excavation machinery, we can not easily explain
how and why some of these huge sites were created.
The existence of these megalithic structures challenges the mainstream narrative and points
to a far more complex history.
Is it possible that these structures were built by a lost civilization as advanced as
or superior to our current one?
If so, then who created this megalithic civilization?
When did this civilization establish itself?
And why did it perish?
Megalithic sites often have no inscriptions.
They can be in massive scales, comparable to today’s industrial and utilitarian sites.
These mysterious places hold invaluable clues for the past.
However, when studying these megalithic sites, archeologists mostly focus on excavating bones
and artifacts such as pottery or gold items.
They usually ignore questions on how these structures or caves were created.
Aren’t these magnificent sites the real jewels of history?
Why is their puzzling construction being overlooked and not emphasized enough?
Why are most archeologists so ready to attribute the creation of these ancient sites to countless
slave labor during dynastic times?
These endeavors can’t be explained or reasoned by mere manual labor; as many experts in construction,
stone masonry and hard rock mining have pointed out.
Whoever built these structures were highly sophisticated and likely had advanced machinery.
These enigmatic sites are testimonials of their amazing technological abilities.
Then who were these high tech people?
If they were so advanced, did they have an extraterritorial origin?
In this video I assume that these beings were Earthly based because the large scale construction
work indicates a prolonged occupation and not a temporary visit.
If there was an advanced culture with intricate technologies in the past, then it’s foreseeable
coming from the most intelligent species on the planet, on par with or even more intelligent
than us.
Which creatures fit into this profile?
It’s known that historically the most intelligent species on earth have been hominins, who have
the largest brain to body mass ratio.
For mammals, brain mass relative to body mass, the Encephalization quotient/ EQ is a good
indicator of the cognitive capacity and overall intelligence of a species.
So it’s reasonable to propose that the beings who created the megalithic sites should have
had high EQ, possibly even higher than ours.
Which human species had such a high EQ?
In my last few videos, I discussed the fact that our predecessors had larger brains and
higher EQ than us.
Other hominins such as the Neanderthals had lower EQ thus likely an inferior intelligence.
I received good comments questioning whether bigger brains mean smarter people.
This topic is controversial, especially since we don’t know much about how our brains
function.
Please note that encephalization was used as a proxy for the cognitive faculty of prehistoric
Homo.
While relative and absolute brain size have been found to strongly correlate to cognitive
function in humans, this could still pose a limitation.
But when working with prehistoric remains where brains are not preserved, it’s not
feasible to consider factors such as neuron count, cortex scaling, or other variables
relating to cognitive ability.
Thus, determining cognitive capability was restricted to physical markers, such as the
brain volume.
Based on multiple studies, scientists see a positive correlation between brain volume
and performance on cognitive tests.
This is the “big picture” interpretation of these studies' results.
There are always outliers because every individual is unique, but statistically speaking, a species
with a larger brain and higher EQ is much more likely to be more intelligent than the
one with a smaller brain and lower EQ.
Contrary to the general evolutionary tendency for human cranial capacity to increase, the
average human brain size and EQ actually declined for quite a while.
Homo sapiens rose over 300,000 years ago and the mean brain size peaked around 100,000
years ago, being 1,500 cc, and then slightly decreased to 1,450 cc 12k years ago, after
that it reduced even faster.
So the earlier Homo sapiens from 100k-12k years ago had bigger brains and EQ and probably
physically fitter too.
This means that compared to people in the modern era, Paleolithic humans could potentially
exceed us on the intelligence level.
We know that in 12,000 years, humans with a smaller brain size made the technological
advancement from the Paleolithic period to Neolithic to Bronze age, then the Iron Age,
all the way to the Industrial Revolution wherein our modern society was finally built.
If 12k years is the time needed to establish a modern civilization rising from the Paleolithic
age with our current reduced brain size, then there should have been plenty of time for
our ancestors who had higher EQ and bigger brains to create something extraordinary too,
right?
But we are taught that our ancestors only made minimum progress from 100,000 to around
12,000 years ago.
How come the large brained humans remained in the Old Stone Age for over 80k years and
didn’t make significant technological progress?
Let’s not forget that even Homo erectus with a much smaller brain utilized fire and
made stone tools over a million years ago.
Thus it’s pretty surprising to see that the large brain Homo sapiens didn’t accomplish
considerable work for about 100k years; which signifies the larger brain didn’t help much
with the improvement in tool making and other technical skills.
This contradicts the theory that larger brains are evolutionarily advantageous and high encephalization
generally correlates with higher intelligence.
Why is that?
What if the real history is more complicated and something remarkable happened without
us noticing?
That instead of the technological development and accumulation being a slow growing linear
line, it had been like an undulating wave?
What if this long hiatus of not much tech advances was due to the loss of knowledge
caused by the rise and fall of an earlier civilization?
What if our predecessors created an advanced civilization with machinery and constructed
these megalithic sites but because of unfortunate incidents beyond their control, their culture
collapsed and all information was lost to time?
As the most intelligent creatures on the planet, early modern humans had the cognitive potential
and time to set up and progress into a civilization similar to our modern one.
If so, then when did this lost civilization start to form?
Since 100k years ago when the brain size peaked?
Or before the Younger Dryas over 12,000 years ago?
Or sometime in-between?
Assuming that this lost megalithic civilization was built by modern humans, there is a factor
which could help us narrow down the time period of this civilization: that being the locations
of the megalithic structures.
These sites are all over the world, which indicates a global wide culture.
To be able to build these sites, our ancestors would have had to reach to these regions first.
Therefore, if we know the timelines of when modern humans arrived to the areas with megalithic
constructions, we might get an idea when this previous civilization had been established.
Most known ancient megalithic sites are located in Eurasia, Africa, the Japanese archipelago
and South America.
They include the Giza pyramids, Petra, Baalbeck, Machu Pichu, Sacsayhuaman, Puma Punku, Mount
Nokogiri, Yangshan Quarry, Longyou caves and many more.
Here I’m only dotting the map with sites showing obvious signs of ancient high technology.
They are very unlikely or impossible to be produced by hand tools thus they contradict
the dynastic dates that the academia has claimed.
Dolmens and other similar cruder stone structures are not sufficient representations of a sophisticated
culture with machinery and consequently not included.
My intention with this map is to see where the megalithic civilization extended to.
So far, the earliest known anatomically modern human remain was found to be 310k years old
in Morocco, Africa.
There were at least two waves of Homo sac piens that migrated out of Africa into Eurasia
and further.
Based on archeological findings, early modern humans occupied Europe as early as 54,000
years ago.
Tianyuan man in China proves that humans expanded to eastern Asia about 45k years ago.
In Japan’s Main Island, a Paleolithic site with bone instruments and stone tools has
been dated to 40,000 years old.
As for South America, the general thought is that the Clovis people initially arrived
in North America and then expanded to South America about 11,000 years ago.
However, this older statement has been challenged by recent findings.
Multiple sources are pointing to an earlier occupation in the Americas.
For instance, the fossilized human footprints found in New Mexico, which are dated to be
almost 23,000 years old.
Stone tools found in Chiquihuite Cave in central Mexico suggest that people were living in
Mexico 33,000 years ago.
In Brazil, the Paleolithic site Pedra Furada, has a collection of rock shelters used by
humans.
Charcoal deposits are carbon dated to be 48- 32,000 years old.
Repeated analysis has confirmed this dating, carrying the range of dates up to 60,000 years
ago.
Therefore, we can see that as early as 40-50,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens had migrated throughout
much of the planet.
At this point, humans had developed fine cave art, musical instruments, and a range of complex
stone tools such as bows-and-arrows.
This period is regarded as the upper Paleolithic era.
If humans move forward to the Neolithic time since then, and assuming it took about the
same 12k years to progress from Paleolithic to Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and forward,
then these humans who had bigger brains and higher EQ would have built a comparable civilization
to ours around 28-30k years ago.
If this was the case, then it’s conceivable that the megalithic sites around the world
were created about 28k years ago, before the last glacial maximum.
Suppose this was true, then what happened to this advanced civilization?
Where are their people now?
Unfortunately, they might have been gone for good.
Here I’ll share some fascinating but eerie information revealed by recent DNA studies.
The title of an article bares it all, “Last ice age wiped out people in East Asia as well
as Europe”.
Scientists found some uncanny parallels in ancient human population replacements in Europe
and Asia from 45k to 15k years.
A 2016 comprehensive analysis of ancient European genomes discovered a catastrophic population
meltdown and a dramatic shift in the human populations of Europe between 35 and 7k years
ago.
Researchers found there were people from the M clade who flourished for thousands of years
and were alive in Europe as recently as 25k years ago.
But something happened and they were wiped out between 25 and 14.5k years ago, replaced
with a new group of people of unknown origin.
A 2021 paper echoed a similar population turnover in East Asia.
There, the first modern humans arrived over 40,000 years ago, and then they were replaced
by other groups of humans 19 to 14,000 years ago at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum.
These studies described the following event: over 40k years ago, large brained modern humans
arrived at Europe and East Asia.
They lived in these regions for about 20k years, which btw would be enough time for
them to progress from Paleolithic to modern technology.
Then due to some reason, in about 5-10 thousand years these people vanished at the end of
the last glacial maximum about 15k years ago.
New groups of modern humans repopulated the lands and these new people were the ancestors
of today’s East Asians and Europeans.
With all of this information in mind, do you think it’s possible that these vanished
people could be the ones who built the megalithic sites?
After all, they had the land resources, the time and the brain power to start a great
civilization.
They might have started their civilization around 40k years ago which was in the last
glacial period when the temperature was notably cooler than today.
That explains why the advanced megalithic sites are not located in potentially ice sheet-covered
regions such as North America.
Researchers find that the growth of ice sheets commenced 33,000 years ago and maximum coverage
was between 26,000 years and 19–20,000 years ago, which is referred as the Last glacial
maximum, when a significant portion of North America was covered with ice sheets almost
2 miles thick.
Here is where the advanced megalithic sites are located.
Here is a map of current population density.
Is it just me or can you see it too, that there appears to be a correlation between
megalithic sites and densely populated areas?
Most of today’s major cities in Eurasia and Egypt are built upon ancient sites.
Maybe some of these sites can even be traced back to dates before the last glacial maximum.
On another note, this 40-20k year megalithic civilization timeline and the disappearance
of earlier humans in Europe and East Asia work well with my hypothesis on the possible
ending of a previous civilization.
According to DNA studies, there was a severe global level human population bottleneck which
occurred 20-15k years ago and coincided with Heinrich Stadial 1/ HS1, the catastrophic
millennia long drought.
If you want to check out that video – the link is at the upper right corner and in the
description section.
The unprecedented HS1 super drought must have led to loss of food and water resources, triggering
territorial and geopolitical conflicts and cycles of war.
That chaotic period lasted for thousands of years and might have led to the failing of
a great civilization.
Ok, to summarize, I think there is a possibility that an advanced civilization was established
between 40k to 20k years ago, by early modern humans who had larger brains and higher EQ.
They might have developed sophisticated machinery and built these exceptional megalithic sites.
At the same time, it’s likely that this high tech culture co-existed with other primitive
ones, such as the Neanderthals, Denisovans and other modern humans.
The advanced civilization might have pushed other groups of people to isolated zones,
and isolated populations with small population sizes would stay primitive for a very long
time, as we see in today’s Amazonian tribes.
After that, about 20k years ago, the climate started to change and became more arid and
dusty, the combination of food and water shortages, diseases and wars for thousands of years eventually
destroyed this brilliant culture and its amazing people.
After their demise, previously primitive humans repopulated the continent and started their
own civilization - ours.
If all people from this megalithic culture perished about 15k years ago, as the ancient
genomes tell us, then it’s not surprising that we haven’t found much evidence of ancient
high tech creations.
Artifacts, tools or machinery have endured the harsh climate changes for 20-15,000 years
and possibly remain buried and undiscovered under deep sediments.
Metal objects would have rusted away.
The dramatic sea level rise probably inundated many ancient cites.
Only these massive megalithic structures survived to tell tales about this once glorious civilization.
What do you think?
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