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Oh i feel ancient aliens and ancient technologies are wildly different groups. One is like "you didn't build that" to all ancient people. The ancient technologies is more of cyclical history/fall from grace (due to sin, here probably evangelicals can come in)/golden age (here fashies can come in)/bible tells true stories twisted by time (again red meat, for evangelicals). Aliens don't do anything that interesting for both of those groups, aside from racism, no lessons to be extracted.
I could see ancient technologies lost to history being real. But I don't think there were any societies as technological developed as we are now. In several millenium though after a great cataclysm, maybe they'll uncover remnants of our technology that puts everything they've developed to shame
Nah, we'd know. Like there's some possibility people were doing, idk, ironmongery 100kya+ ago, but metallurgy leaves very obvious contimates in the soil, glass and ceramics never decay. Any refined aluminum would be a dead giveaway. Like it's possible people independently discovered mettalurgy or pottery or something a few times and we just haven't found the sites yet, but large scale industry makes a mess.
There isn't any evidence for it, anywhere. The closest real thing would be that the bow and arrow was independently incented a number of times in different places.
I like how Rimworld deals with ancient metals. Instead of mining iron you just find a bunch of compressed steel or components as ore deposits.