Looking for examples like Planet of the Apes or the game Kenshi where the previous society is either so ancient or so thoroughly destroyed that it's more of a largely forgotten archeological curiosity with little relation to the civilization that's replaced it.
The only literary example I could think of is Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
*The Passage* Series by Justin Cronin starts in modern times and the ensuing apocalypse but very quickly jumps forwards hundreds of years to a post-apocalyptic civilization.
*Station Eleven* and *Camp Zero* are also set decades after the fall of our current civilization, where humanity has adapted and is in a different state of civilization.
The Broken Earth series by NK Jemisin is so far past the apocalypse that it initially comes off as fantasy.
I think these threads, if you haven’t come across them already, might have some relevant suggestions that would interest you?
https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/15ue150/far_future_apocalyptic_novels/
https://www.reddit.com/r/postapocalyptic/comments/7lzerz/recommendations_for_fiction_set_far_after_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/rf29lv/are_there_any_good_books_set_on_earth_hundreds_of/
The Passage gets there quick. Oryx and Crake has primitive existence and rebuilding.
Hugh Howey’s **Wool** is set very far after the apocalypse. It’s the first of his *Silo* trilogy.
*Earth Abides* by George R. Stewart
*Alas, Babylon* by Pat Frank
*A Canticle For Leibowitz* by Walter M Miller
*The Pelbar Cycle* by Paul O. Williams
*Pulling Through* by Dean Ing
I Who Have Never Known Men is a good one in this genre.
The terrible thing that happens
The Locked Tomb series tales place 10 thousand years in the future.