Before the end of the last ice age, a race of advanced Giants may have ruled the earth and met their untimely end as the ice age ended and humans began to form tribes and shift from hunter-gatherers to farmers. There are numerous examples of giant humanoid skeletons being found and either dismissed as fakes or disappearing to be locked away from the public. Hundreds of such examples were found in the United States in the New England area and South Eastern parts of the country in the 1890s and 1930s but mysteriously disappeared soon afterward.
The dates that these giants would have lived would have put them within the last ice age in terms of development, meaning that most of their culture and technology would have been since lost to the ages. Even what we know about a relatively advanced civilization from modern times such as the Romans is pieced together archaeologically from artifacts either preserved or that give clues as to how theylived. Any civilization from as far back as the last ice age would be largely untraceable today, especially if they tended to live on or close to the sea.
All except their skeletons. Shortly before the end of the last ice age, some geologists are of the opinion that there was a massive solar flare that quickly melted most of the planet's ice very quickly. This would have lead to widespread weather instability as well as flooding, volcanic activity, and huge storms. Disastrous for any ancient civilization without means of protection from the elements of protected means of food production not reliant on crops and the weather. How humans survived while a more advanced species perished or was driven very close to extinction could be answered by the fact that humans at that time were not settled.
Hunter-gatherers were far better able to adapt and were more widespread than a society based on one fixed point or even several population centers. Soon after this, humans began to develop farming techniques and settle the lands, developing into tribal and later monarch based societies. Could these techniques have been taught to mankind by the last of a dying out race of giants? Charles Hapgood's 1966 book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings:
Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age suggests that there was indeed an ancient society much more advanced than any that we know about and that the height of its power was during the last ice age. Many of the maps shown in Hapgood's book not only show an advanced understanding of the continents including many places such as Australia not rediscovered until relatively recently but show many islands and locations now submerged by the sea. This suggests that when some of the maps in the book were produced during the last ice age, the last time these places was above sea leve.
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