History Channel: Ancient Aliens Documentary. Explain this!

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Bamboleo said:

Khuutra said:

No sir

I reject the assumption

It's much less of a logical leap to assume that at one point we simply had greater technological skills which we later lost due to some great societal or climatory shift.

So you can find dinosaur skeletons and other artifacts "lost" in various situations but you cannot find "the lost human tech"

 

that's very selective don't you think? You just brought the same point as a friend of mine was bringing while watching this documentary with me and as we get more deep into that documentary that point would make less and less sense.

I thought this whole thread was about lost human tech which has been found?

And I'm not proposing that people simply had our technology 5000 years ago. They had their own technology, which we may or may not have rediscovered. Easter Island, Stonehenge, and the Pyramids were once thought to be impossible for ancient civilizations to build, but it turns out that they had simply developed clever tools and techniques which had been lost to time for one reason or another. They used techniques which we simply wouldn't bother with nowadays because other solutions are open to us. Almost no construction these days even bothers with quarrying, so it's no small wonder that a civilization without concrete might be more clever with stonework than one which prefers to pour its own rock.