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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darraketh" data-source="post: 270992" data-attributes="member: 847">I like the idea of adventuring in the stone age.  Do you have any plot ideas? What would a typical adventure consist of?  You may want to consider having a more advanced race, that died out, precede the arrival of man.  That way you can still have megolithic structures to adventure in and advanced technology to find.Here are some interesting dates to help put things in perspective.(Of course you have the power to make anything happen at anytime you choose.)All dates BC of course.2,400,000 Date of the oldest known stone tools, from Hadar, Ethiopia.1,000,000 Beginning of the Pliestocene (ice age).400,000 Oldest known surviving wooden tool, a spear (found in Shöningen, Germany).300,000 Oldest known structure, a hut at Terra Amata, France.135,000 Date of the earliest anatomically modern human fossils, Omo, Ethiopia.100,000 Modern humans begin their migration out of Africa.45,000 Date of the oldest know musical instrument, a flute found in North Africa.32,000-14,000 Period of cave art traditions in Europe.28,000 The last of the Neanderthals become extinct.12,000 Joman hunter-gathers make the first pottery in Japan.11,000 Dogs become the first domesticated animal.10,000 Beginnings of Agriculture in the Middle East.9000 Wild sheep flocks are managed in the Zagros mountains, Iraq.9000-8000 Cultivation of wild grains in the Fertile Crescent.8000 End of the last glaciation.8000-7700 Wheat and barley are domesticated in the Fertile Crescent.6500 Rice cultivation in the Yangtze valley.6200 Copper smelting and textile manufacture in Chatal Huyuk (Turkey).6000 Wheat, barley and sheep farming begins in Egypt.  The first cattle are domesticated in the Middle East.  Farming spreads across southern Europe.3800 Bronze casting techniques employed for the first time in the Middle East.3400 Earliest writing appears in Uruk (Iraq).  City-states emerge in Sumeria.I hope this helps. Please keep us posted as to how you develop your idea.--source ISBN 1-58663-238-8Check it out, I haven't finished reading it yet but I am enjoying it.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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