It does often seem to be correlated to reactionary conspiracy sentiments. There is the "non-white people could not have possibly stacked rocks this big!" thing
I guess also flat earth?
It does often seem to be correlated to reactionary conspiracy sentiments. There is the "non-white people could not have possibly stacked rocks this big!" thing
I guess also flat earth?
Nah, we'd know. Like there's some possibility people were doing, idk, ironmongery 100kya+ ago, but metallurgy leaves very obvious contimates in the soil, glass and ceramics never decay. Any refined aluminum would be a dead giveaway. Like it's possible people independently discovered mettalurgy or pottery or something a few times and we just haven't found the sites yet, but large scale industry makes a mess.
There isn't any evidence for it, anywhere. The closest real thing would be that the bow and arrow was independently incented a number of times in different places.
I like how Rimworld deals with ancient metals. Instead of mining iron you just find a bunch of compressed steel or components as ore deposits.