10 Civilizations You’ve Never Heard Of

10 Comments on "10 Civilizations You’ve Never Heard Of"

Newfie on Sat, 7th Dec 2013 6:03 pm 



Newfie’s Theorem: Only a Stone is sustainable. Civilizations aren’t.

Newfie on Sat, 7th Dec 2013 6:07 pm 



… Stone Age …

J-Gav on Sat, 7th Dec 2013 10:53 pm 



Funny – I’ve heard of all of them, except the Yonaguni. My wife wrote and illustrated a children’s book on Catal Hoyuk. Not that you can make a living doing that sort of thing, especially not in France … but it’s interesting to see even a miniscule (and not always accurate) overview of some usually forgotten history in less than 3 minutes.

rollin on Sun, 8th Dec 2013 12:23 am 



Only knew seven of them, I better catch up fast on the past.

BillT on Sun, 8th Dec 2013 2:28 am 



Same here, except, I have heard of the Yonaguni. I guess this is a statement of the level of education prevalent today. We have the knowledge of the world at our fingertips on line, but most spend their hours on facebook like social sites instead of learning how to live and their own history.

Many of those civilizations were more civilized than we are. They had running water in or near their homes and some had ‘flush’ toilets also. They left record of their life and history on materials that lasted thousands of years.

We will leave only pieces of worthless plastic junk in landfills and no written record of our knowledge, lifestyle or history. When the internet goes down, as it eventually will, all that was on it will vanish forever and since it is now the repository of all we are and know…

BillT on Sun, 8th Dec 2013 2:32 am 



BTW: I meant that I knew of all of those and then more. The internet is an inexhaustible source of learning, but you have to get a wide sample to get near to the truth. I’ve been to the center of the earth layer by layer, to the planets on a tour, and back to the big bang that created us. So much in such an attractive, easy to understand format… and most of it is not even accessed by anyone.

DC on Sun, 8th Dec 2013 2:33 am 



I know of 7 of them. The other three were pretty obscure. I mean, they are *lost* civilizations after all. If we dont get our material together, and soon, well be joining them. And we wont have lasted near as long as even the shortest lived on that list.

Arthur on Sun, 8th Dec 2013 3:49 pm 



Heard of all civilizations before, but did not recognize the names of at least 3-4 of them. People, organizations, countries, empires and civilizations, all come and go at some point. We are on the eve of the disappearing of the greatest civilization of them all, the West, the one with interplanetary potential, because of imperial overstretch, squandering of resources, over-consumption, destruction of the family and mass immigration.

Next on the rising new civilizations menu:
– The North (Euro-Siberia) with North-Euro-American satellites (like before 1776)
– China + Asian satellites, like Korea, Japan and Taiwan
– Sunni and Shi’ite Islamic empires. The former could encompass entire North-Africa.

Beery on Mon, 9th Dec 2013 10:29 am 



I only didn’t know three of them, and I’m thinking it’s probably the same three that others were unaware of. Surely pretty much everyone knows the Olmec, Hittite, Etruscan, Minoan and Rapanui civilizations.

moli on Mon, 9th Dec 2013 10:25 pm 



its regular stuff. its in the past and primitive . . the current times are removed from superstitions and firmly set in causality. . . however to shift ones mind and heart from multiple causes to the singular cause and design requires a quantum shift of mind and heart. . martin lings is possibly a way forward for english readers.