obsidian is an incredibly hard-to-work stone, finish on it nowadays would only be possible to do with laser technology

http://phys.org/news/2011-12-oldest-obsidian-bracelet-reveals-amazing.html

I cant stop wondering what happened to the people in the world back then to disappear without a trail.

why is it such an amazing thing? chances are you've lost something in your home you still haven't found so why on a planetary scale do you find that something being lost is interesting?

dam...

Time destroys all evidence.

Artifacts continue to progress deeper and deeper into the Earth and will eventually be completely destroyed.

This and many artifacts are not capable of standing the test of time. A wooden spear by example.



Pfft, what?

i just don't get why people get hung up on stuff just because its gone with no answers. people get all fascinated by lost civilizations and stuff when there is so much amazing stuff that actually matters.

Knowing about the birth of civilization and technology is pretty damned fascinating to me.

I do see your point, I just think it's errant to find the past such a nuisance.

the past is important but spending your time looking for something thats been gone for thousands of years with little to no evidence is a waste of time.

i'm fine learning about well documented past civilizations and such but i refuse to care about civilizations that have next to zero documentation.

Uh... what do you think constitutes 'documentation?'

If everyone had your opinion 500 years ago, we wouldn't know shit about the greeks.

Who say's they disappeared?

Population integration happened just like with the Mayans.

:edit

and to OP yeah I agree that Turkey is getting more intriguing...first that 12,000 year old structure they found now this?

This post was edited by chewbacha on Jun 10 2012 01:14am