Скачать или смотреть Audiobook | Whispers of the Forgotten World: A Journey Through Lost Civilizations - Part 3

During the Middle Pleistocene, which began around 780,000 years ago and lasted until approximately 126,000 years ago, the Earth underwent dramatic climatic shifts. It was during this epoch that anatomically modern humans, known as Homo sapiens, first emerged around 300,000 years ago. Remarkably, they thrived for approximately 174,000 years before the onset of the Last Glacial Maximum, which peaked around 26,500 years ago.
In this vast span of time, these ancient humans had the opportunity to accumulate knowledge, innovate, and develop technologies far beyond what we often attribute to early societies. By the time modern civilization began around 12,000 years ago, with the advent of agriculture and recorded history, Homo sapiens could have been 15 times more advanced than our current society. Their understanding of the natural world, engineering feats, and complex social structures may have set a precedent for human achievement that we are only beginning to rediscover today.