40.000 BC: The Foundation of Human Civilization

If you have read my book Our Unknown Ancient Past then you are aware of Genevieve von Petzinger's amazing work. If not, here is a short briefing: The Anthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger spent many years in European caves, recording written symbols. After extended research, she tracked the origins of writing around 40.000 BC. In the image below you can see that most of those symbols are spread almost worldwide.

Interestingly enough, we have another piece of evidence pointing to this date: the zodiac. According to Professor Martin Sweatman's theory, analyzed in his book "Prehistory Decoded", the zodiac has remained more or less unchanged for 40.000 years. In his pioneer work Professor Sweatman proved that prehistoric people were using the zodiac we are still using today.

And let us not forget about the lion-man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel, an extremely important prehistoric ivory sculpture that was carved out of mammoth ivory between 35.000 and 40.000 years ago. Experts estimate that it took almost 370 work hours for its construction, which really impressed since, in early societies, there was the potential of a person to be involved for such a long period with a non-livelihood activity. This artwork proves that men had the spare time required to create civilization.

Now, there are some interesting conclusions that can be derived from these facts. It is clear that the people of 40.000 BC had a common culture. What is not at all clear is how that came to be. Is it because there was some basic communication (through trade for example) between people? Or could it be that this culture can be traced back to their common origin when they split after leaving Africa (if that is the way things happened)?

Since mainstream science would not even consider the former explanation, let us go along with the latter. The out of Africa wave is supposed to have happened roughly 70.000 - 50.000 years ago while by 50.000 BC those people had even reached Australia. So, those written symbols had survived for many thousands of years. This is also supported by the fact that they are found in every single continent, as this movement itself is supposed to have lasted for tens of thousands of years.

I think it is obvious, based on the huge lifespan of those written symbols, that cultural changes occurred at a very slow pace back then and for me this implies that language itself changed at a similar slow rate. This supports the argument I present in my book that the evolution of language does not occur at the same speed in all societies. This is one of the reasons I believe that the Indo-European Theory is wrong. The similarities of our languages are much older than we thought, just like the zodiac and the Neolithic written symbols...