It is a pop science magazine trope to wonder this. There is zero evidence for this.
A much more plausible speculation is that stone civilizations rose and fell that we don't know about. Cultivating crops among wild forest and domesticating animals that subsequently go feral is so much more likely to have happened in the time that Sapiens was physiologically modern.
A much more plausible speculation is that stone civilizations rose and fell that we don't know about. Cultivating crops among wild forest and domesticating animals that subsequently go feral is so much more likely to have happened in the time that Sapiens was physiologically modern.