I finally watched the vid. So this guy thinks that he can solve the mystery with a search of the Internet and put up a bunch of Wikipedia entries. As far as his analysis is concerned, it is correct. I studied the domestication of corn extensively. They started out as little tiny husks until domestication caused genetic alteration and it became viable as a food source. But I have to say: So what? he says cereal type plants are a precursor to civilization, and he has traced those plants that produced the civilizations we know about. That says nothing about the past. Is he sure, though, that wheat, for example, is a recently domesticated plant? Could it not have existed before? Could ANOTHER cereal plant have existed before? Of course.
He also stated that it would have been difficult to have a civilization before the end of the last ice age. Well, let's just examine that, shall we? The end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago, resulted in a sea level rise of about sixty feet worldwide. Now, if there were an ancient 'civilization,' on the rise, where would they settle? On the seacoast. The sea is a big highway and there's lots of food in it.
Now take a look at Hudson Bay. It's an old meteor strike, filled with water. During the last ice age it was frozen over and there was ice all along its coast. Have you ever seen Lake Michigan in winter when it freezes near the shore? The ice on the shore builds up several feet. I remember walking along it and I believe it was about 8-10 feet above the lake itself. The same thing happened around Hudson Bay, though likely the ice ring around the bay was taller.
OK, the ice age starts to end. Hudson Bay, being saltwater, unfreezes first, before the land ice does. So the land ice ring is holding back billions of tons of water. The ice dam starts melting too. then one day, it breaks. All that water is released into the Atlantic Ocean. The sea level rises 60 feet in a matter of hours, and that struggling seacoast civilization in India and thereabouts, goes under water in a heartbeat.
There's your flood story. There's Atlantis. This civilization my have had writing. They may have figured out a lot of stuff, but they probably were still working mostly in stone, much like the Greeks. Their buildings are still underwater. Fishermen still snag their nets on its outcrops, and they report seeing glittering buildings beneath the seas from time to time.
The thing is, this theory does not counteract anything we already know. The general course of human evolution stays intact and does not require any modification. We know there was an ice age. We know how those ice dams work. There was another similar dam break, again in Canada, that carved out the Columbia Basin, took all the top soil with it, and exited at the mouth of the Columbia River dividing Oregon and Washington State. This is something that science accepts, by the way.
Those of you who think Global Warming is a problem might want to check this out:
JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World It shows what happened to our population last time we had an ice age. You also might enjoy Underworld, by Graham Hancock:
Amazon.com: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization (9781400049516): Graham Hancock: Books which elaborates on this theory in detail.