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<blockquote data-quote="Morandir Nailo" data-source="post: 4350215" data-attributes="member: 67674">It's a bit nit-picky, but this is far from the truth.&nbsp; Anatomically modern humans have been around for almost 200,000 years, and have been making objects the entire time, as did their ancestors.&nbsp; There's a hand-axe in the British Museum that's about 1 million years old.&nbsp; More recently, there are plenty of artifacts present from the last Ice Age (ended app. 12,000ya).&nbsp; These objects are for the most part stone and bone tools, though in some areas (Monte Verde in Chile, for instance) organic materials have been preserved.&nbsp; As others have mentioned, cave paintings exist in Europe that are up to 32,000 years old.One thing to remember is that you're playing in a fantasy world.&nbsp; Obviously, we gamers take for granted that the laws of physics work much as they do on Earth (excepting magic, of course), but that doesn't have to be the case.&nbsp; It's not very hard to imagine a place where materials exist that simply don't wear down, or take tens of thousands of years to do so.&nbsp; And there's always the old fall-back of &quot;it's magic, that's why it's still here after a million years!&quot;Mor</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morandir Nailo, post: 4350215, member: 67674"] It's a bit nit-picky, but this is far from the truth. Anatomically modern humans have been around for almost 200,000 years, and have been making objects the entire time, as did their ancestors. There's a hand-axe in the British Museum that's about 1 million years old. More recently, there are plenty of artifacts present from the last Ice Age (ended app. 12,000ya). These objects are for the most part stone and bone tools, though in some areas (Monte Verde in Chile, for instance) organic materials have been preserved. As others have mentioned, cave paintings exist in Europe that are up to 32,000 years old. One thing to remember is that you're playing in a fantasy world. Obviously, we gamers take for granted that the laws of physics work much as they do on Earth (excepting magic, of course), but that doesn't have to be the case. It's not very hard to imagine a place where materials exist that simply don't wear down, or take tens of thousands of years to do so. And there's always the old fall-back of "it's magic, that's why it's still here after a million years!" Mor [/QUOTE]

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