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Shit like this is what makes me question if this is our first run around or if we are looping a creation/destruction loop.
Ancient astronauts.
Younger dryas.
Unified flood myths.
Objects out of place in the larger historical context.
No historical records past cave paintings.
I'm just a bit of a nutter on this. Maybe alchemy was us trying to re-enact what our more advanced ancestors could do before something reset us. Maybe we were so advanced everything was digital and that's why there's no records. Books break down. Digital media breaks down. Know what doesn't? Stone. But you can only do so much to tell people thousands of years from now. So you do what you can do. Oral storytelling, but then languages get lost and evolve but things persist.
It's a great concept for fantasy or sci Fi.
Anyways I digress.
It's a neat idea for sure, but the out of place artifacts are rarely/never as mysterious as people like Graham Hancock would suggest.
Younger Dryas wasn't as catastrophic either. Nor are flood myths as unified.
It's fun to imagine possibilities like that but I can't conceive of how a society could advance to a nonphysical/digital technology paradigm without impacting the earth in enormously detectable ways.
I think it's interesting to imagine a scenario like what if European explorers shipwrecked on a place like Rapa Nui, the most isolated inhabitable place on the planet. How many generations could they maintain knowledge of the globe, and their culture.
Obviously the Polynesians basically maintained their language (ie it was identifiable as a polynesian dialect) for ~500+ years in plausibly total isolation.