When The Humans Disappear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri9bAtQDe00

I seen this documentary on t.v. the other day. It basically explained about how quickly major cities--without human interruption--would fall victim to the ravishes on nature. Essentially, after a few hundred years most of the evidence of a human civilization would be gone. And after a thousand or more years most of all the evidence would be gone--apart from a few monumental structures like the Crazy Horse mountain in South Dakota.
Now after a while I started to think....... If humans have been around from 100 to 200 thousand years, (which I think is up for speculation) then there is room for multiple civilizations for which we cannot account for. Maybe even one as advanced as ours or maybe greater; that perhaps was wiped out by some sort of cataclysmic event: i.e. asteroid, ice-age, what have you. I dunno roll up a fat dub and giver' a tink.

Listen to "Nothing But Flowers" by the Talking Heads. Sums it up.

Vast South American cultures were wiped out by European viruses only a few hundreds of years ago.

Those folks FARMED South America before the trees took things back over.

Why is the soil there in places the most fertile on earth?

Christians won't believe the answer.

interesting..

others have thought the same thing look up the book civilization one, in my opinion it seems weird that people were able to create stonehenge which measures the movements of the sun and the moon as well as the stars without a higher level of intelligence then early man.

Amazing how quickly the evidence of civilization would dissappear. People say the idea of the Ancient Astronauts, or Atlantis etc is impossible due to a lack of evidence, yet as time goes on, the trail would get even fainter.

Who knows what's happened on this planet before we started digging our way into the past. Meso-american cultures and those before are worth looking into. If humans out of Africa reached the Americas so late (in historical terms), then how did the South Americans have such agriculturing and inventive success? Chances are we'll never even uncover a 5% understanding of ancient times. Look at how much we've progressed in just the last 200 years, peoples before could have done similar.

Nice thread jeralea. It just shows, no matter how many concrete jungles we construct and resources we waste, nature will always be there, even if all life has long been lost, to fight back.