Dave
10-18-2011, 06:57 AM
As I understand fossilization, which is how the dinosaur bones have remained for us to discover, it takes certain conditions and a lot of time to take effect. Dinosaurs were during a time when no civilisations existed, so no conscious development. Bodies lay where they died, nothing was reused.
Human civilisation on the other hand is constantly developing on top of what existed previously and reusing anything that would last a long time, so not much would be left alone long enough to become fossilized. There is evidence of civilisations from that long ago, but not much, and the theories that have come out of those findings are just that, theoretical.
However, arguably, the legends and myths from those times have remained and either formed the basis of religious stories (eg Noah's flood) or the mysteries that have fascinated for millenia (eg Atlantis).
Paul's 'First Age' has really only been hinted at, Demonsong being the only story set there. From what I understood, it was a time of great power, but that power was magical by nature, not industrial.