Although modern humans have been physiologically the same for around 1.5 million years, our official history is that there has been no true human civilization before 7,000 years ago.   Based on a variety of threads in the research I have read so far, there is a strong case for at least one high culture prior to the end of the  last ice age.   (Conceptually well said here http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread344117/pg1 and here http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_cienciaindia_5.htm)

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_cienciaindia_4.htm

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/recent_archeological_finds_confirming_Vedic_history.htm

Academic research continues to puzzle over the most magnificent ruins of history. It is clear that at the time when our official history says we were just beginning to develop we accomplished feats that are hard to duplicate today.

• machu picchu
• Tijuanaco
• Sanliurfa, Turkey, the earliest known ancient ruins called Gobekli Tepe carbon dates to around 9,000 BCE
• Eqyptian Sphynx
• Gaza pyramids
• Easter Island
• Baalbek, Lebanon
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_monoliths_in_the_world

In a number of cases, the local populations refer to their folklore which tell of some ‘others’ who built the monuments and taught them new ways.

A Gulf of Cambay urban site has recently been dated by Indian archaeologists to 7500 BCE. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_cienciaindia_5.htm

• with advanced stone and metal working

• similar stone working capability seen in early monolithic buildings
• while the monolithic sites may seem to appear out of no where which could result from an outside intelligence intervention.  However, I suspect that these are just the ones that used such heavy and hard stone that they were the survivors.  With less
• a better understanding that us with
• must have had advanced math and some writing
• long distance ocean navigation
  • Maps that accurately show the coastline of Antarctica with out the glacier suggest the culture peaked prior to the last ice age 100,000 or had sonar geological mapping tech.
  • Any map that would have survived the cultural collapse would be the one most useful at the end.  So it would be a map of Antarctica with the ‘visible’ contours, not the hidden ones.
• far flung trade routes
  • long distance sea travel is almost certainly tied into a strong trading economy
  • I see no reason that such a civilization could not have been on par with England of the late 180os.
• concentrated in equatorial regions at peak of last ice age
• some gradually dispersed, others catastrophically driven out of settlements
• eventual inundation of most long term settlements
• major loss of population, economy, infrastructure, lead to dark age of lost knowledge
• some sources and writings remained and are carried to many parts of the world to seed culture.  Most of those writings were later lost as invaders attempted to erase local cultural identiies, such as:
  • Spanish in central and south america,
  • Mongol invasions
  • Burning of Library at Alexandria
  • European Crusades
  • Vatican Library probably best remaining collection
  • Private collectors and museum basements may have untold troves of lost history
• May have been so advanced relative to tribal frontier people that these ‘messengers’ could have been perceived as gods with special powers
  • Viracocha- caucasion with beard
  • Anasazi
• source of many common cultural elements and myths
• settlements that were not underwater may have been cannibalized or built over after thousands of years

Discuss the new research into the geology of micro continents that have been destroyed by lava at major faults.

• Good fit for Atlantis myth.
• Possible link to Lemuria
• Some other origin myths…

Maybe even further back possible high tech cultures.