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?
I could see ancient technologies lost to history being real. But I don't think there were any societies as technological developed as we are now. In several millenium though after a great cataclysm, maybe they'll uncover remnants of our technology that puts everything they've developed to shame
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.
That had been true for most of our cultural memory though. It wasn't till the mid 1900 our engineering was as good as the Roman's. So in living memory there were people who had the experience of living in a world that wasn't as cool as existed in antiquity.
Now, that does forget that most people in roman times weren't having a good time. Just that their good times were better than ours for most history.