Probably, the best example that modern science has done a terrible job examining the human past, is the fact that the prime living space for human beings—on coast lines—was submerged at the end of the last major Ice Age and few historians have ever bothered to ponder the implications, as Plato and Robert E. Howard did. Howard’s Conan and Kull stories, set in a now sunken world, marks the chord of that seems to vibrate unbroken down through the ages in the hands of poets, but eludes the scholar for its very simplicity.

What is more, for early civilizations fishing could have provided protein sufficient to support population centers, at the level of early animal domestication, without all of the disease associated with living in close proximity to animals, yet only grains and grazing livestock are considered as possible sustenance for civilization.

Graham Hancock is a nerd to watch if you are interested in alternative interpretations of the human past.

The old English theory that the invading Aryаns introduced higher forms of culture when they came into India is simply stupid. They introduced new modes of war making and associated martial traditions. They did not bring the Vedas to Indian anymore than the Germanic tribes that took down Rome introduced the Iliad.