And thats the thing, they cant date stones, only organics. So by them being found with other Egyptian stuff in tombs and other places, archeologists just basically tagged them as being made by Egyptians. Which by all accounts makes sense until you study this more, like its being done now, and its pretty apparent that one of those things is not like the other.
Aberrational craftsmanship that is centuries or millennia before its time is nothing new in archaeology. See the antikythera or the Roman emperor’s glass cups. I’m not convinced by arguments that things are made too well for our understanding of a time period. One mad genius that never reveals his techniques can throw a huge wrench into history at times, and we have very well documented examples of it where we don’t understand the how very well or at all, but the providence and timing is completely beyond question.
Lost technologies happen all the time. Consider the best known, concrete. Roman concrete was a marvel. They used it primarily for extensive structure, which survived due to that use of concrete... and the art of making concrete was lost for over 15 centuries until it was reinvented in the 19th. It's a reminder that technological state is not monolithic. All civilizations were advanced in one aspect, less in others.Thats the main thing that sets off my bullshit sensor
Not just the pots but everything else that is touted as "it couldnt be built/made with technology of that time" whether it comes to blocks, obelisks, household objects, funerary items, etc.
We can find all these examples of what was impossible to make at the time, but we can't find a single example of how. Not a single tool, not a single clay tablet with instructions, nothing.
What are the odds?
I agree with what you're saying in principal. But in my mind, its coming off more as pessimistic view of the world. Even if we had a super volcano event, or as mentioned, a massive solar flare that stripped away a layer or more of atmosphere OR any of those possible events still leave the world in a survivable state - then we would still have pockets of civilization within the world that would survive and prosper. We're just disagreeing on the severity that we would regress, and thats fine.
Since learning this, Ive seen it first hand that the majority of the worlds population (here, reddit, facebook, etc.) believe that Scientists/Archaeologists can carbon date anything and everything. Further amazed at the people that understand the processes and still think that just because they found a piece of carved wood near a stone ruin, that they think the wood dates the ruin.
You need to think about it on a macro scale. What you're talking about would take centuries to recover from. Let's use your example and a solar flare fries everything more advanced than a transistor radio. But doesn't physically harm any person or structure directly. Boom every modern factory, pc component fabrication, data stores, any car older than 2000 or whatever. The ability to build 19th century factories would have to be rediscovered as we would have to regress all of the supporting technologies, forging, manufacturing techniques, labor force, etc back to that level. Livestock/horses to do labor wouldn't be in abundance and would take another generation to get used to using them again. Without the ability to produce nitrates from the air like we have since the early 20th century critical fertilizers would be in short supply. I mean it would be so ugly I don't even want to think about it.
I agree. The vases are completely unprovenanced from a known site. All they can agree upon is that it was in the private collection of a British aristocrat since the early 19th century. Which creates its own problems even if it was a complete forgery as 18th century stonemasons also wouldn't have been able to create it.
The shit about the diorite pounding stones being what carved the perfectly shaped stones all through ancient Egypt, is way funnier. Every video they tried to make something with just a small piece of granite, they all gave up after a day, but still declared it the tool that did the job.
And then imagine the pyramids themselves. Forget the cutting of the stones.... 3.2 MILLION stones, 2.5 tons average weight of one stone plus some 8000 tons of granite were imported from Aswan located at more than 800 km away.
Now imagine... There's an ice age, and things get so bad that the old ass books that DID survive end up being more valuable as kindling than as knowledge.
ancient-aliens-guy-"because-aliens".jpgThats the main thing that sets off my bullshit sensor
Not just the pots but everything else that is touted as "it couldnt be built/made with technology of that time" whether it comes to blocks, obelisks, household objects, funerary items, etc.
We can find all these examples of what was impossible to make at the time, but we can't find a single example of how. Not a single tool, not a single clay tablet with instructions, nothing.
What are the odds?
On top of this, the communities MOST ready to survive end times type scenarios are Amish and other low tech societies that are already able to raise a barn by hand from fresh cut trees or whatever. People that have no grasp of the advanced technology that's made the average modern human complacent and incapable.
Like I said, all of hour knowledge is too compartmentalized these days. We have experts in very narrow windows of knowledge. Very few general experts. Too much relying on power tools and tech to solve propblems. And yeah, 80% of the plebs are just plain dumb.
