ANCIENT CULTURES

From Before 1,000 BC

REDATING ANCIENT CULTURES

I’m trying to list all ancient cultures with their dates and locations. The locations are bound to be correct, but the dates need a lot of correcting. So I’m listing my revised dates ahead of mainstream dates.

FLOOD. Anything before 3200 BC is likely wrong, because that’s likely when the Great Flood occurred. Most Creationists date the Flood at 2400 BC or so, but they’re following the wrong Bible, the Masoretic Bible published by anti-Christian Jews after the time of Christ. They appear to have been trying to make it look like the Bible didn’t prophesy Christ. The Septuagint Bible published centuries before Christ is way more reliable.

Anything before 2900 BC is probably wrong too, because there were apparently very few human survivors of the Flood. Noah’s family likely landed in SE Turkey and it likely took 300 years to gain enough population to spread out through the world. The Tower of Babel incident may be when people began to migrate. Most of the population seems to have been from southeast Turkey down the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf coast. After the Tower of Babel incident, many seem to have moved to the Nile Valley in Egypt, although there were already some other people living in Egypt.

It’s possible that there were other survivors of the Flood besides Noah’s family, but it’s somewhat unlikely, because the supercontinent, Pangaea, was all lowland before the Flood. So all of the land was likely submerged before the asteroid hit Pangaea and split it into continents and caused the formation of mountains. People could have survived quite a while on rafts or in boats, but the tsunamis would have swamped most boats and most people would not have had enough food and water to survive for a year while the Flood lasted. The mountains in Turkey where the Ark landed were newly formed, like all other mountains. There was little or no sedimentary rock before the Flood. The sediments were nearly all deposited on the continent/s by the tsunami/floods. When the Flood waters subsided, they eroded away a lot of sediment and washed onto the continental shelves. ~30% of the continents, such as much of Canada, have little or no sedimentary rock in wide areas (AI says Wikipedia reports 73% of the Earth's land surface is covered with sedimentary rock; Tulane University states about 66% of continental areas; a Geological Society of America Bulletin article confirms 66% with a ±3.5% confidence interval.).

Any buildings or artifacts that existed before the Flood would have been broken up by the tsunamis, dispersed and either buried under sediment or washed off of the continent/s. But the Ark seems to have survived.

YOUNGER DRYAS. The people who came to North America c. 2900 BC didn’t last long, because they were mostly wiped out by ice boulder impacts from a comet or asteroid that hit the ice sheet in the Michigan area. Some in the U.S. southwest and Mexico may have survived that, but there were also more Floods from the rapid melting of the ice sheet from impacts etc. So most of those people likely died out c. 2500 BC, the time of the Younger Dryas impacts.

There were severe Floods in most of the world because of the rapid melting of the ice sheets at that time. The sea level apparently rose by nearly 200 feet, which drowned many coastlines, which were probably densely populated. The Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea flooded at that time too, I believe. The mammoths and other megafauna in Siberia and North America had a few centuries of peace and plenty before the short Ice Age got progressively more severe. Many froze to death, then the Younger Dryas Flood drowned most of the rest. Some survived a while on Wrangle Island north of Siberia. They were stranded there when the sea level rose.

CARBON DATING ERROR. C14 dating is fairly accurate for about 2400 years in the past, then it gets increasingly inaccurate. Peter James also found an error of about 250 in ancient Egyptian chronology. So I’m reducing Eastern Hemisphere dates accordingly. Western Hemisphere dates may be better, since they’re not based on Egypt dates.

REALISTIC ESTIMATES?

The Clovis Culture of North American seems to be widely known about. I’m putting it much more recent than the mainstream does. They estimate the Ice Age as c. 12,000 years ago, but Creationists show reasonably that it occurred after the Great Flood, since remnants of the Ice Age are on top of sedimentary rock. The same applies to manmade structures. They’re also on top of sedimentary rock, so they can’t be older than the Flood. Below I show about 27 cultures starting in both hemispheres after the Flood and before the Younger Dryas. If there were 10 people to start with and they tripled their population each generation, they’d be over 60,000 in 200 years and over 5 million in 300 years. If the 5 million were divided evenly between the 27 locations, there would have been 200,000 people in each location. So that seems plausible.

MY DATES; WIKI DATES; ANCIENT CULTURES; LOCATIONS

WESTERN HEMISPHERE

{2900-2500} 11500–10800 BC — Clovis Culture — U.S., Mexico, Canada
{2900-2500} 10800–9000 BC — Folsom Tradition — U.S.
{2900-2500} 9000–5000 BC — Plano Cultures — U.S., Canada
{2900-1800} 3500–1800 BC — Valdivia Culture — Ecuador
{2900-1800} 3500-1800 BC — Caral-Supe Civilization — Peru.
{2900–2000} 3000–2000 BC — Ceramic Period Cultures — Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
{2500–1000} 8000–1000 BC — Archaic Period Cultures — U.S., Canada
{2200–-700} 2200–700 BC — Poverty Point Culture — U.S. (Louisiana+)
{1500BC–300CE} 1500BC–300CE+ — Early Formative Cultures — Mexico
{1500–400} 1500–400 BC — Olmec Civilization — Mexico

OCEANIA

{2900} 65000 BC-NOW — Aboriginal Australian culture - Australia
{2900} 50000 BC-NOW — Papuan-speaking peoples - New Guinea and nearby islands

EASTERN HEMISPHERE

{2900-2500} 45000-9700 BC — Hunter-Gatherer Cultures — Worldwide.
{2900-2700} 9500-8000 BC — Göbekli Tepe Culture — Southeastern Turkey.
{2900-2400} 6000–3150 BC — Predynastic Egypt — Egypt
{2900-2400} 5400-4500 BC — Vinča Culture — SE Europe.
{2900-2400} 5000–3000 BC — Yangshao Culture — China
{2900-2500} 4800-3000 BC — Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture — SE Europe
{2900-2600} 4600-4200 BC — Varna Culture — Northeastern Bulgaria.
{2900-1600} 4500-1900 BC — Sumerian Civilization - Mesopotamia (Iraq).
{2900-2400} 4300-2800 BC — Funnelbeaker Culture — N central Europe.
{2900-2700} 3700-3100 BC — Botai Culture — Northern Kazakhstan.
{2900-2600} 3700-3000 BC — Maykop Culture — Western Caucasus region.
{2800-2000} 3500-2300 BC — Pitted Ware Culture — Southern Scandinavia, Denmark.
{2700-2200} 3300-2600 BC — The Yamnaya Culture — Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan.
{2700-1100} 3300-1300 BC — Indus Valley Civilization — Pakistan/northwest India.
{2600--500} 3200--539 BC — Elamite Civilization — southwestern Iran.
{2600--800} 3200-1000 BC — Cycladic Culture — Cyclades islands of Greece.
{2600-2100}3200–2500 BCE — Skara Brae — Scotland
{2700-30}}} 3100---30 BC — Ancient Egypt - Egypt
{2700-900}} 3100-1075 BC — Minoan Civilization - Crete & other Greek islands
{2400-2000} 3000-2350 BC — Corded Ware Culture — Europe (Netherlands - Russia).
{2400-1600} 3000-1800 BC — Jiroft Culture — southeastern Iran.
{2400-1700} 3000-1700 BC — Longshan Culture — China.
{2800-2200} 3000–2300 BCE — Pastoral Neolithic Culture — Kenya, Tanzania
{2100-1000} 2500-1100 BC — Kingdom of Kush - Nubia (modern-day Sudan)
{2000-1700} 2500-1950 BC — Catacomb Culture — Pontic steppe Ukraine/Russia.
{2000-1300} 2500-1500 BC — Kerma Culture — Nubia/Sudan.
{1900-1700} 2334-2154 BC — Akkadian Empire — Mesopotamia/Iraq.
{1900-1400} 2300-1600 BC — Únětice Culture — Central Europe (Czech Republic, — Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Ukraine.
{1800-1700} 2200-1900 BC — Sintashta Culture — S Urals (Russia/N Kazakhstan).
{1800-1100} 2200-1300 BC — Argaric Culture — Southeastern Spain.
{1600-1200} 2000-1450 BC — Minoan Civilization — Crete, other Aegean islands.
{1600-900}} 1900-1100 BC — Mycenaean Civilization - Greek mainland
{1600-500}} 1900--539 BC — Babylonia - Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq)
{1600-????} 1875--??? BC — Xia Dynasty - China
{1500--200} 1800—-238 BC — Nuragic Civilisation — Sardinia, Italy.
{1500--900} 1700-1150 BC — Terramare Culture — Northern Italy.
{1300--900} 1600-1178 BC — Hittite Empire - Anatolia (modern-day Turkey)
{1300--900} 1600-1046 BC — Shang Dynasty - China
{1200--500} 1500-539 BC — Phoenician Civilization - (Lebanon, Syria, N Israel)
{1000--400} 1200-400 BC — Olmec Civilization - Mesoamerica (modern-day Mexico)
{900BC-200AD} 1000BC-200AD — Nok Culture - Nigeria