The big
2012-film is just the latest on civilization being wiped out theme. N
ostradamus documentaries have been included in the looming global disaster bandwagon.
http://videodetective.com/TitleDetails.aspx?publishedid=121755Whitley Strieber has a
2012-book that may or may not be related, depending upon ones point of view.
Of course the big question is, has humanity made the climb from the stone age to the space age more than once? If so, global scale disasters would have wiped out any technological civilization from the past 100,000 or 200,000 years.
http://setyoufree.lefora.com/2009/11/11/ancient-human-metropolis-found-in-africa/page1/Indeed, its still tough enough to piece together remnants of the past 10,000 to 20,000 years.