OceanIsVerySalty t1_j63grea wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago discovered in Ethiopia by rmaccr
A cutting edge made by banging rocks together is not at all the same as “ancient nukes.”
Ancient peoples did not have nukes. There is absolutely no real evidence of that. It is just a conspiracy theory.
CompositeBeing t1_j64gt5a wrote
The ignorance is not an excuse for denial of information at hand. Sometimes the additional language skill is needed but there are translators ...
OceanIsVerySalty t1_j64jcn2 wrote
Look, ancient people did not have nukes. This is an absurd thing to even suggest, and is a conspiracy theory with no basis in fact or proper scientific research.
CompositeBeing t1_j64mxtf wrote
I suggest a more thorough research - there are a lot of evidence about that but as it hasn't been in line with the "main stream history line" one needs to dig it out.
Ever wondered why ChatGPT worries so many main stream media and some IT companies? Because it will have an unrestricted access to everything that is hidden in a plain sight.
Try to do some math yourself - someone was manufacturing obsidian axes 1.2 billion years ago, your ancestors were manufacturing similar axes from stone 50k years ago. So nothing ever happened to a previous civilizations in between? 1 billion years passed and all we did in that time was to "manufacture" primitive axes. And suddenly a few thousands years ago we went to iron age. And since then how many years passed? 1 billion? Or just a few thousands?
So once again - it is great that this obsidian axe made into media.
Sum1udontkno t1_j65g5tx wrote
Using various paleoclimate proxies such as ice cores and sediment samples, paleoclimatologists have been able to pin point events such as the Permian - Triassic extinction event 251.5 Mya, the K-Pg boundary 66 Mya when an asteroid / supervolcano killed the non-avian dinosaurs and ended the Cretacious, Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum 55 Mya, and many more. They get more and more accurate the closer to modern time they get.
A mass extinction caused by a nuclear event would not go unnoticed- especially as recently as the pleistocene. There would be evidence of decaying or decayed radioactive isotopes.
If you are interested in such things as past human-oid civilizations, I suggest you put your mental energy into learning about our closest relatives such as Neanderthals, Denisovians, and Homoflorensis. Or more distant relatives like the Ardipithecus family from ~ 7mya. Truly fascinating stuff.
Otherwise, if you continue on this conspiracy theory path of "past nuclear civilizations" based only on the fallacy that it's impossible to prove something DIDN'T happen; you will end up another ancient aliens nut case or Lock Ness Monster truther and deprive yourself of a whole world of fascinating REAL knowledge about the world and it's past. Even fueling harmful controversy for real researchers trying to conduct real research about past civilizations. Please don't be one of those people...
Edit: also, head over to r/AskAnthropology if you have more questions
ImminentZero t1_j64n0ap wrote
You keep linking a site that doesn't provide any sources for its claims or information, and even a cursory dive into any of the specific claims reveals that the only sources for them have either been discredited directly or have themselves failed to provide any empirical evidence in support.
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