[legitimayzer]

it's not that we didn't develop culture, it's just that the scientific/academic CANNOT accept nothing which is not written down (or which exist as material remnants), and writing is barely over 10 or 12 thousand years old.

meaning that the preceding period of cultural development doesn't exist for them by the 'choice' of relying solely on material artifacts as admissible evidence; which unwritten (oral only) transmission does not have.

[DuckFeathers]

I think it has little to do with "science"; it is the westerners who have held science hostage which has led to all kinds of idiocy.

They will accept Egyptians as "civilized" because they can then go on to claim that the ancient Egyptians who lived 2500 years ago, who were more close to Europeans, totally built the pyramids even though nothing suggests that they had the means to do so... and the answer to that obviously is "slavery"... because that is how Europeans would do it and therefore that is how it was done.

And nothing is unknown or open to explanation because western "experts" of course know everything.

I don't think there is much hope for knowing more of human past until the western empire collapses and more intelligent civilizations take over.