Hi guys, today I’ll continue to discuss the existence of a possible lost civilization,
which might have created the world wide megalithic structures.
These impressive and mysterious sites have bewildered modern engineers and architects.
Even with current construction methods and today’s mining and excavation machinery,
we cannot easily explain how and why some of these massive sites were created.
These ancient relics surpass the ability and comprehension of our existing technology.
Some sites show amazing precision cuts, some contain millions of huge stone blocks, some
reveal highly accurate and uniformed tool marks, which resemble modern machine marks.
I have consulted with and received feedback from stonemasons and experts in construction
on these markings.
They confirmed that these were not the work of manual labor and in fact share uncanny
similarities with today’s large scale machines.
In my last video, I proposed that about 20 to 30 thousand years ago, there might have
existed an advanced civilization potentially more sophisticated than ours.
This culture flourished possibly for tens of thousands of years; but it eventually broke
down and collapsed into the sands of time.
My hypothesis is based on the human average cranial size changes, Homo sapiens migration
timeline, studies on human population replacements and bottleneck, all of which coincided with
a catastrophic millennia long drought.
If you haven’t watched that video, I highly recommend you to check it out.
Now, moving forward.
If there was an advanced civilization with machine technology in the distant past, why
haven’t we found traces or remnants of its artifacts, tools or machinery?
We know there were dramatic sea level changes of over 100 m or 328’ over a few thousand
years thus some of the ancient cities might be submerged.
15,000 years of natural erosion and sediments would have decayed and buried a lot of evidence.
Yet despite that, archeologists found dinosaur fossils, which are far more ancient.
They also uncovered many Paleolithic sites with stone tools and human skeletal remains.
However, we haven’t found artifacts to prove an advanced culture may have existed.
So here we have a dilemma.
On the one hand we see these fantastic stone structures and caves that are clear signs
of ancient high tech.
On the other hand instead of finding evidence of ancient high tech we have these Paleolithic
sites with stone tools and bone instruments.
Does this mean all the many people living through the Paleolithic era were primitive
and had nothing to do with the megalithic sites?
Maybe not.
We have to consider the strong possibility that an advanced civilization co-existed with
primitive ones; like modern countries have co-existed with the Amazonian tribes, the
Australian aborigines and other indigenous people around the world.
What if the Paleolithic settlements with stone tools only represented a portion of Paleolithic
society and not the full picture?
What if we are not searching for clues of the lost advanced civilization in the right
places?
The no.
1 areas to look for evidence of such a civilization would be where the advanced megalithic sites
are located.
Unfortunately this is not really feasible.
Most of these sites, such as the Great pyramids of Giza have been occupied and visited for
thousands of years.
Anything of value or interest would have been taken, looted, destroyed or repurposed a long
time ago.
In modern days, these sites have been carefully cleared and cleaned out again to become tourist
attractions.
They also are often deemed nationally or internationally significant Heritage Sites and on-site excavation
is strictly limited if not prohibited.
Non-invasive scanning, however, might get approval and could be helpful.
But in general, these sites are only good for visual assessments.
Here is a map showing where the advanced megalithic sites are located.
Most are found in Eurasia, Africa and South America.
I’m only dotting the map with sites with obvious signs of ancient high technology.
They are very unlikely or impossible to be produced by hand tools thus contradicting
the dynastic dates claimed by academia.
Dolmens and other cruder stone structures are not sufficient representations of a sophisticated
culture with machinery and consequently not included.
Here is a map of current population density.
When the two maps are overlaid, there appears to be a correlation between megalithic sites
and today’s densely populated areas.
I find this very interesting.
Many megalithic sites are located in or close to cities or towns.
For example, the polygonal walls at Cusco and Sacsayhuaman, the gigantic stone blocks
at Baalbeck, the Western stone at the Western wall in Jerusalem; the megalithic platform
of Pnyx in Athens, the octopus stone at Osaka, Yangshan blocks are at a large city Nanjing,
the Giza pyramids are close to Cairo.
Machu Picchu seems to be an exception being on top of a mountain though on the map it
is actually not too far from Cusco, the direct lateral distance is about 42 miles or 66 km,
about half the distance from New York city to Philadelphia which is an-hour’s drive.
Even the megalithic sites which are very likely to be ancient quarries and mines are not too
remote, although normally they should be placed far away from large populations.
The enormous quarry of Mount Nokogiri is only an hour and a half from Tokyo Station by express
train.
What does this tell us?
That the megalithic builders probably lived and worked in regions that are also heavily
populated by us now.
This shouldn’t be a surprise.
Certain highly populated areas might have always been popular from the dawn of Homo
genus.
There are reasons why these places are desirable.
Areas with consistent freshwater resources like rivers and lakes would be considered
ideal.
A 2011 study shows that over 50% of world’s population lives closer to 3 km or less than
1.9 miles to a surface freshwater body, whilst 90% lives within 10 km or 6.2 miles.
And that’s when we have the modern utility lines to deliver water.
In the Paleolithic era, especially during the last glacial period when the climate was
colder and more arid, regions with freshwater would have been essential to our predecessors
since they could have provided humans with water, fish and mollusk.
Plains that surround freshwater would have year long plants and trees for humans to forage.
Flatter lands and water can attract more animals which would be good hunting grounds and a
regular source of meat.
Compared to mountains with harsh winds and more snow, plains or valleys have milder weather
and remain easier to traverse and transport trading goods.
Flat lands can also sustain population growth and territory expansion better than hilly
sites.
Therefore, these water-rich and flatter locations would have been prime choices for early human
habitation which may have eventually developed into important cities in established societies.
Now back to the point that the wide spread megalithic sites are in or close to modern
cities.
This suggests that the cities with megalithic structures might have been built upon very
ancient grounds which could potentially trace back to the time of a previous advanced civilization.
With this information in mind, let’s take a look at where the Paleolithic settlements
are located.
I want to see if there are overlaps between the advanced megalithic regions and the Paleolithic
sites where human remains and stone tools were found.
Using the lists on Wikipedia, I checked most Paleolithic settlements and places where archaic
human remains were discovered.
I focused on the period between 130k to 12k years ago when the human brain sizes were
larger than our current one.
The reason for this particular time range is related to human brain size changes.
Homo sapiens’ 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.
Our current average brain size is the smallest in any time in the last 100,000 years; and
our brain to body mass ratio, the encephalization quotient/ EQ has also declined.
Relative and absolute brain sizes have been found to positively correlate to cognitive
function in humans.
Thus it’s possible that modern humans in the Paleolithic era from 100k or earlier to
12k years ago were as smart as or more so than us, which means they had the potential
brain power and time to develop into an advanced civilization.
Nonetheless, we are taught that our ancestors only made minimum progress during that time.
How come the large brained humans remained in the Old Stone Age for over 80k years and
didn’t make significant technological advancements?
Is it possible that this long hiatus of not much tech growth was due to the loss of knowledge
caused by the rise and fall of an earlier civilization?
If so, then we should find some clues by comparing the locations of Paleolithic and megalithic
sites.
Here is what I found.
The majority of the excavated Paleolithic burial grounds and settlements are in natural
caves and rock shelters.
Stone tools or bone artifacts were sometimes recovered along with human remains.
I guess that’s why the early humans are often referred to as cavemen.
Most Paleolithic caves are in remote and hard to get to areas in mountains and hilly regions.
As we discussed earlier, mountains are not as accessible as plains, have harsher climate
and offer less water and food resource.
Then why would Paleolithic people choose to reside in remote caves rather than flatter
lands?
Maybe not all of them lived in caves.
Think about it, these remote sites were preserved probably because they are not popular or ideal
places hence less frequently used by humans and animals.
Desirable locations, such as plains by freshwater bodies, travel and trade routes would have
been reoccupied and rebuilt countless times by various human groups for tens to hundreds
of thousands of years.
Our modern cities in the old world might come from popular and populated Paleolithic sites
– and examples that come to mind would be Rome, Athens and Cairo.
This indicates that the remote Paleo sites might only reflect some marginalized early
human groups.
We can use the information gathered from these sites as a guide though we also need to realize
its limitations.
On this map I marked and dated the Paleolithic settlements between 130k to 12k years before
present.
As scientists have pointed out, although anatomically modern humans first appeared in Africa over
300k years ago, signatures of cognitive modernity in the archaeological record remain uncommon
until around 80–100k years ago.
This is in line with the 100k year peaking of the human brain size.
About 50,000 years ago, a marked increase in the diversity of tools and cave paintings
occurred, which signifies major human social and cognitive progress.
Around the same time, 40-50k years ago, humans migrated throughout most of the world.
I think this period could be the beginning of a previous advanced civilization.
It took 12k years for humankind to develop from the Old Stone Age to modern society with
incredible life changing inventions.
If Paleolithic humans from 40-50k years ago started their civilization and progressed
at a similar speed, then about 35-28k year ago they would have established a global-wide
high tech culture similar to what we have today.
Indeed that might coincide with the time of the creation of these advanced megalithic
sites.
Since I’m proposing that the megalithic civilization was established around 35k to
28k years ago and ended between 18-15k years ago during HS1, I’ll remove the Paleolithic
sites that are 35k years and older.
Now we can see that between 35k to 12k years ago the Paleolithic sites shared no common
land with the megalithic ones.
From this exercise we learn that the megalithic structures are usually located in populated
areas while the Paleolithic settlements are not.
The Paleolithic sites with its primitive tools speak for humans who lived in that region
around that time.
But they might not exhibit the sophistication level of the people who lived in more desirable
zones where the megalithic sites now stand.
Like today, the remaining isolated tribes of indigenous people around the world do not
depict the technological level of our modern civilization.
Therefore, it’s possible that the advanced megalithic builders co-existed with primitive
cavemen such as the Neanderthals, Denisovans and other modern humans who occupied different
areas on the continents.
Maybe initially the communities, which possessed larger, ideal lands with richer resources,
developed into a sophisticated culture, although the isolated, smaller and less-resourceful
groups remained primitive and used stone-tools.
The advanced civilization with machinery might have constructed megalithic sites while other
human groups stayed tribal and almost unchanged .
This megalithic civilization in all likelihood had buildings made of metal and other materials,
but these materials were not as long lasting as stone and might have crumbled, rusted away,
been scavenged or reused over time.
We are recognizing this civilization by their megalithic structures because these stone
sites are the only objects that survived after all kinds of natural disasters, incremental
weathering and rampant man-made damage.
It’s known that ancient people liked to reuse building materials to save time and
labor.
Ancient Egyptians took pyramids’ casing stones; Romans removed old columns, stone
blocks and veneers for their new constructions; the Chinese took rammed earth from burial
mounds to make bricks.
At Sacsayhuaman, the smaller blocks, which were easier to remove have been reused by
locals to build their own homes.
Only the large and heavy blocks remained intact.
This recycling and repurposing method has been practiced everywhere throughout history.
Less massive structures would have been taken apart.
The megalithic sites are extraordinary for their mere survival alone.
But they are only the bare bones of the magnificence that existed eons ago.
If modern humanity hypothetically just disappears today, what would be found tens of thousands
of years in the future?
One might see the last traces of our existence in the form of super-scaled stone and masonry
structures such as the Hoover dam, Mount Rushmore, and underground mines.
Neglected structures over 1000’s of years like the Eifel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge,
the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and other such grand testaments to modern day ingenuity might certainly
be lost to the ravages of time.
The highly précised ancient megalithic sites are indisputable evidence of an advanced culture.
They are located in or near today’s populated cities, which indicate that megalithic creators
lived in similar areas as we do today.
Desirable locations would have been occupied by all kinds of human groups in the past and
accumulated the richest cultural sediment layers.
So where can we possibly discover evidence of this lost advanced megalithic civilization?
Besides the shallow continental shelves, which are submerged by the ocean, on land we might
be able to find something under and around the cities close to megalithic sites.
We could literally be standing on top of ruins of an earlier civilization.
Imagine that.
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