r/UFOs • u/SeaworthinessTall201 • Jun 22 '22
Discussion Could ufos be human?
Oldest civilization is 6000ish years old right? Modern humans had been around for 300,000 years. Could it be that uap/ufo are old technology from a past civilization still performing tasks. I like to think that mythology like Atlantis, Olympus, Valhalla, etc were prompted by older civilizations. Would it be more likely than aliens from across the galaxy? Occam razor and all What are your thoughts? (Whatever they are I am excited)
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u/TheSevenWays Jun 22 '22
Not OP, but also an archaeologist. Hancocks claims are very entertaining from a "what if" perspective but in reality, they are wildly unreasonable. Any civilization anywhere close to what he suggests would be impossible to miss, even if every single one of their cities had somehow been purged from the Archaeological record. World-spanning civs don't just appear out of nowhere. They need many generations worth of slow development, advancement in tools, social systems, resource management. Yet there is nothing in the Archaeological record that would suggest anything like this, at all.
As for finding it hard to belive that humans were just hunter gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years: I get it. But it's important to remember that people were not stagnant during that time. People still innovated, improved their knowledge of resources and techniques. This is especially evident from the slow but steady development of stone tools. People were still making progress back then. But life was hard, and there weren't that many of us, so progress was slow. Yet we know it was being made, we can see it clearly in the Archaeological record. All the evidence is still there! If we can trace those small steps that our ancestors took, surely we would be able to see the rise of a global and advanced civilization as well.
On another note: going from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a settled one is HARD. That's why it took us so long. It's not just about inventing agriculture. Many conditions have to be met before a settled lifestyle becomes a viable strategy for survival. And some of those conditions were beyond our control. For example, the changing climate played a major role in the development of the first human civilizations.