Ben van Kerkwyk

In fact, there was a

A period called the Aeolian period was about 120,000 years ago.

That was very much like the Holocene that we're in today.

In fact, it lasted longer than the Holocene has currently lasted.

We've been in the Holocene maybe 10,000 years.

10, 11,000 years.

I think the Aeolian period was more than 15 to 20,000 years where it was stable weather.

Sea levels were like three, four meters higher than where they are today.

But it wasn't like this.

It wasn't like the height of a glacial maximum where it's a difficult place to live.

It was a calm period.

I mean, the only reason our civilization is here today is because of the nice weather of the Holocene, right?

We have warm weather.

We haven't had like

massive catastrophes that have been like, you know, extinction level events kind of thing to get in our way and knock us back to the Stone Age.

There was a similar period like that that lasted longer than we've been in this nice period, about 120,000 years ago.

And if you consider after that the cycles of glaciation and flooding, then particularly the Younger Dryas, there'd been just almost nothing left.

It's just the stone in places that survived

what happened afterwards so i i do like my my range of possibilities for okay when did these artifacts uh originate like when did some of this architecture originally be built uh it it's it's not to me just 15 000 years ago it could be 100 200 000 years or even more and

Again, more contextual evidence to support that is things like the erosion that we can see on some of these sites.