/x/ - Paranormal

>>37142

>Where would prehistoric civilizations be?

Pretty much everywhere. The americas, the atlantic ocean, northern europe, the north pole, antarctica, etc. A lot of cities were built near the coast and were submerged by water after the sea levels rose during the end of the last ice age.

>When would they be?

It's hard to put a specific date on it, but it's safe to say that advanced civilisations existed tens of thousands of years ago. Atlantis almost certainly existed, and it was destroyed 11,600 years ago. This is the date that Plato gave us and it's been confirmed by geological data. There's been a lot of speculation about the dating of the sphinx and the great pyramid of Giza, with estimations based on astronomical calculations going as far as 16k-25k years ago. Tihuanaco is probably around at least 15k years old. According to the Egyptian and Sumerian lists of god kings, their histories go back hundreds of thousands of years.

>How advanced might they have gotten?

The people who ruled over those civilisations (and later, their priests) had access to very advanced science and technology, beyond what we have today (UFO technology). But that knowledge was kept hidden from the masses. The average guy wasn't flying around on his personal spaceship. It's pretty much certain that Egyptians used machine-powered saws to cut some stones, since no other tools could have done it.

>>37219

Maybe I'm a retard, but is this really something worth worrying about? They just built a roof over it, right?

>>37148

Glad you mentioned levitation. You reminded me of this guy, who's surprisingly never talked about.

>since no other tools could have done it.

Placing sand and water under copper tools has been proven to work, although not proven that it was the tools they used, but I believe it because the Egyptians were also using wooden sleds.

In one of the pyramids were some heavy stone doors that operated with counterweights. I can't remember which pyramid it was but that was impressive to me.

Turkey eastward is a good start, maybe areas in south europe

>>37368

Do you really expect me to read that?

A couple of days ago the Atlantic published this article titled "Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?"

https://archive.fo/AWkY0

The author concludes that the answer is probably no, but the fact that he even entertained the idea at all is a surprising sign of open-mindedness, and the article was posted on a mainstream magazine. I think his fundamental mistake was in assuming that a non-human civilisation would have necessarily followed the same technological and socio-economic path as our own. Just because we rely on fertilizers and plastics, it doesn't mean the hypothetical non-humans would have as well. Nevertheless, it was an interesting read.

Black Sea Atlantis theory

http://www.black-sea-atlantis.com/black-sea-atlantis

Ballard Finds Traces of Ancient Habitation Beneath Black Sea

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2000/12/122800blacksea.html

Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/mysterious-indo-european-homeland-may-have-been-steppes-ukraine-and-russia

In 5500 BC a civilization around a freshwater Black Sea got flooded out when the Mediterranean broke through the Bosporus Strait. The survivors spread their Neolithic culture and Indo-European language into Europe, the Middle East, and possibly Egypt.

>>37404

Imagine dinosaurs, yet to possess oil as their swamps have yet to condense underground, and even their woodland is too primitive to use for lumber and more. With dumb brains and no opposable thumbs, even stone structures and philosophy is unlikely. So what does this mean? Bigfoot founded Lemuria.

>>37409

This is really fascinating. The first website is old too. Hope they made new efforts since that time to explore the Black Sea.

Almost certain there were civilizations or at least cities that we don't know about. Humans have always liked settling near water, on coasts, and they've been rising for a long time.

>>37434

Some theropods were actually pretty smart (based on their encephalisation ratio) and their front paws were probably sophisticated enough for simple tool manipulation. The fossil record is very incomplete since very very few animals ever underwent the fossilization process (which requires special conditions for it to occur). So the vast majority of dinosaur species will always be unknown to us. There might have been dinosaurs as smart as us, in fact I would be surprised if there weren't, considering that dinosaurs ruled the planet for many millions of years, and it only took primates a few million years (according to the theory of evolution) to evolve into humans.

>>37441

I can't remember the exact reasons but one day I was looking up dinosaur intelligence out of curiosity and various websites were under the belief that dinosaurs in general were dumb. I'm actually a bit skeptical about their findings though because I don't think examining fossils will be as good as observing them firsthand. But, what can we do? Firsthand is not an option.

I do remember theropods being said to be more intelligent than the others though. Comparing dinosaurs is interesting in itself as the herbivores tended to be quadrupeds and cold-blooded, while carnivores were generally warm-blooded and bipedal.

The crocodile, while not a dinosaur, was still a weird case of going from a two-chambered heart to a four-chambered and then dropped down to three-chambered.

The fossil record may not accurately depict time as well. Some species could have avoided fossilization for a long time before vanishing, or for a long time in their beginning. Turtles date back very far in the fossil record but there are huge time gaps between the fossils, although they are different species of turtles of course. So many turtles lived across the planet between those millions of years of blank pages.

In history, there could have been all kinds of shit that took place and left no records. It can make me drift off into thinking for a long time to imagine all the possible scenarios.

>>37409

Read that as Black Atlantean Theory and was triggered by assumed SJW history revisionism.

>>37456

>I want to know what life was like before the last ice age.

Me too. If the legends are true, the antediluvian world must have been amazing. God-kings that reigned for tens of thousands of years, quasi-magical technology, giants, and all kinds of different non-human species/races coexisting in a largely still pristine world. The sad thing is, the Sumerians and the Egyptians surely knew a lot more about this, but most of their knowledge died with them.

>>37466

I've actually been wanting to make a thread about giants lately as the catalog currently has none. I was wanting to gather up a dozen sources and images to dump into it. But my uni homework is keeping my down, group projects and finals, too busy at the moment.

>>37471

There's this one I made a year ago.

>>31986

I also made this one on /fort/ about a 5,4 metre tall giant allegedly captured and killed in the year 922. It's a really interesting story that even most e/x/perts have never heard of.

>>>/fort/2

>>37409

I was watching a UFO video which just happened to be located south of the Black Sea.