Lost Story of Humanity Introduction

There are mysteries deep in humanities past. The further we go, the less we know in great detail. Therefore, on the one hand, I mean this quite literally.

Scarce data increases the necessity of speculation, and some knowledge we can probably never know.

What we do know is that truly momentous events for our species took place between about 10,000 to 3000 BCE, and there is a mystery as to what took place, and exactly how it took place.

This time frame between the End of the Last Ice Age around 10,000 BCE, to the Dawn of History in both Sumer and Egypt around 3000 BCE, is significant because many important revolutions occurred:

• The Invention of Agriculture in the Neolithic Revolution — This is defined mostly with a new sedentary way of life, coupled with larger population groups, farming, gardening, raising animals, herding them, and so on.
• The Invention of the Wheel, Pottery, Potter’s Wheel, Houses, Farm Tools, and many other Advancements — also occurred between the melting ice and history. We absolutely see a gradual progress over these seven thousand years of revolutions.

Even in these recognized revolutions, in a very real sense, a missing piece in our collective history. A missing piece that may hold powerful pieces in our story.

The investigation of this phase of human civilization is, in general, the Lost Story of Humanity.

The Pillars of the Lost Story

Ancient Memories Encoded In Myth

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There exist a number of theories that fit the evidence very well and explain certain myths perfectly. The Sumerians remember a time without grain and bread, when humans ate cold food like animals (a clear reference to their hunter-gatherer past that occurred at least 1.5-2 thousand years ago.

This is quite clearly a memory that slipped from a rich, ancestral, oral Sumerian tradition into the written.

There are many references like these that are very probably memories that, in some cases, are demonstrably ancient. The Great Flood tradition (the oldest recorded version ever being the Sumerian maybe around 2300 BCE) very likely memorializes the impact of the meltdown of glacial ice and the rising seas that followed over centuries, and millennia.

There are certain ancient myths — and explanations for them — that are a little more controversial. The detail in the Hebrew version

Memories of An Advanced Civilization

An Advanced Ice Age Civilization

A part of the Lost Story of Humanity is an investigation into the potential existence of an advanced civilization at the End of the Last Ice Age. A civilization that was advanced for its time (at least) that reached a pinnacle with resounding implication for the flow of World History.

The precise degree of advancement of this proposed culture is, in my opinion, a matter of debate. The evidence that we do have indicates a more sophisticated level of culture than previously conceived in various regions, and at earlier dates in prehistory.

The Central Veins

.The central veins of evidence that suggest the existence of a Lost Civilization in Prehistory (specifically in the millennia at the End of the Last Ice Age, through the Neolithic, into the Dawn of History In Sumer…

The Influence of the Conditions During The Last Ice Age – And It’s End – On The Intervening Millennia Before The Dawn Of History

This has not thoroughly been explained or explored, in my opinion. If the an Ice Age Civilization survived a cataclysmic end, what exactly can we expect of them?

Gods, Angels, Aliens, or Men?

[This is for the ancient…] When we look at the extensive mythology of ancient humanity — a true perspective on world mythology, including the religions attached to the traditions themselves by extension — it is my belief that there really is no need for the supernatural, multidimensional, or extrasolar to be at work to explain almost all of what we find in the historical and archaeological record.

Not that I am opposed at all to them being true. (On the contrary: I want to believe. I truly hope aliens exist. I hope that humanit hopes that the first homo sapiens humanity was seeding by

With that being said, there are few exceptions that are hard to explain.

A fundamental premise of the Lost Story of Humanity is the potential existence of an historical basis for certain core narratives within ancient religious traditions. There are a great many unproveable (but relatively undeniable) references in Sumerian Mythology of things that happened thousands of years before there time.

We are able to know those events and those references because of modern technology, archaeology, anthropology, chemistry, environmental, and many other sciences. The only way that the Sumerians could have known about them is through a sophisticated oral tradition going back several thousand years before their time. That the Sumerians knew these things is quite astounding. It surprised me, at least, considering these memories could have been 7000 years old by the time writing was invented.

A few of these relatively uncotroversial reference are:

“A Time Before Grain” — The Sumerians knew of a time before humanity (the ancestors of the Sumerians at least) had developed agricultural skills. The interesting thing about this is that the Sumerians practiced agriculture for over a thousand years during the Uruk period with certainty, meaning that this memory is at least a thousand years old.

Before this, in the centuries before 4000 BCE, we lose track of the Sumerian people. Maybe they were a nomadic tribe from several hundred kilometers away. Maybe they were a local people that had been in the region since around the Neolithic Revolution around 10,000 BCE, when farming was invented.

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To Do TOday

Intro

In the mists of prehistory, in the long ages of the world between the evolution of Man on Earth and when we first learned the art of writing in ancient Iraq around 3000 BCE, we have a period of around 300,000 years when little is known of our species.

We are not sure when we learned to speak, when we began crafting stories and artwork for the first time. Even now we are just beginning to learn of our intricate relationships with the several other species of human — our sibling species — on Earth during this time. We had children together, before they went extinct, for reasons we don’t yet know for sure. Genocide at our hands? Famine? Disease? The last ice age?

Yet when we did learn the art of writing, as history begins in Sumer, the oldest stories told that we have record of, all tell us incredible tales of long-forgotten times, advanced civilizations, and a history of events that are hard to believe. Nonetheless, many of their recollections have been confirmed by science, and by archaeology, forcing us to consider these ancient tales in a new light.

Unravelling the mystery of this early phase in our history is one of the most important questions that we can ask.

This is the Lost Story of Humanity.