technologically advanced can be certainly ruled out for earth.
the would be some form of evidence of that as artificial things tend to last far longer than natural things.
anything "advanced" to the point of say metal working would leave markers that would last nearly foever
Again, that's where the definition of "advanced" needs to come into it. Making basic metal tools may well not leave enough of a regional/global mark to be seen in the geological record (or it may be visible, we just don't realise what it is yet). That could especially be the case if the species doing it were settled in areas that have either now been subjected/destroyed or even on parts of continental shelf now submerged.
On the other hand if there were advanced life to the point of producing enough atmospheric/subaqueous material to be visible in a regional/global sense then we would almost certainly see it. Things like the nuclear age and lead in fuel are clear markers today and will be clear markers globally for millions/billions of years - modern day GSSP's. A species of a few hundred thousand/million individuals making primitive tools out of metal probably wouldn't leave that mark, but a species able to do space travel almost certainly would.
All that said, we may well see the results of an advanced species in regional/global geology, say in the form of a horizon with greater radioactivity or isotope count, but we may not recognise it for what it is. There are plenty of local, regional and global markers that have unknown origin in the geological record. And all this is making the assumption that the "advanced" civilisation's scientific/technological evolution was the same as ours.
The latter point can also be said about any alien life as well. A species starting at a different point in time, space and/or environment may end up with a totally different technological chain of events to ourselves*, in the same way a planet may end up with a totally different chain of evolution, evolutionary events (atmosphere changes, volcanoes, asteroids etc) and evolutionary jumps (our evolutionary advance on Earth was NOT linear) - perhaps life never left the seas, but evolved into an advanced life form able to build cities and transport, but never having evolved to use fire or similar heat sources. That's one of the issues with the whole SETI program - do we even know what we are looking for, and if an alien civilisation is trying to contact others, will it even be using the same methods.**
All that said, I am arguing devils advocate a little here. I think it is very unlikely there was another advanced (non primitive tool making) species on this planet prior to us, and it is extremely unlikely that a species as/more technologically advanced than us evolved before us. HOWEVER, just because we haven't seen it in the geological record does not mean it isn't there, so there is always a chance, and dismissing it out of hand is probably a bit foolish.
*And may not look anything like we understand - rather than little grey/green men with two arms, two legs and a head they could be tentacled, fish like, or even some kind of shape shifting creature - who knows?
**We make assumptions based on what we understand, such as Brian Cox' example of an interstellar matter/anti matter drive for space travel. That doesn't mean that would be the technology another species would use however.
