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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 277929" data-attributes="member: 2205">Well, I haven't read the whole thread, but just a few comments: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What?  No settled civilizations?  Don't you think it likely that the Neolithic Revolution (and the next wave of that, the Secondary Products Revolution) are referred to as the "Neolithic" revolution because they indeed took place during the Stone age?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Don't try to make the Stone Age a monolithic cultural and temporal entity: the "Stone Age" was still current in North America when the first Europeans arrived.  I doubt the Cherokee Nation, for example, would think much of your ideas that the Stone Age is for Cro-Magnon illiterate hunter-gatherers.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Eve Theory.  Really problematic.  It's only one of two competing camps in physical anthropology.  A lot of other folks are big into the Multiregional Evolution camp, and say that the Eve theory's popularity --especially outside the academic community-- is the result of good PR, not good science.  I'm not offering my opinion here, though!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No tanning?  What's your source of that?  Stone Age cultures, especially late Stone Age cultures were already way beyond tanning.  Tarim Basin mummies (admittedly, Bronze Age by this time) were wearing twill tartans already (and the last time this population could possibly have been in direct contact with proto-Celtic peoples was Eneolithic at the latest.)  Tanned leather was also a significant portion of their wardrobe if the mummies are any indication.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I actually submitted a variation on this as one of my setting ideas to WotC.  Not to spill too much of the beans, but my idea was a primitive human and Neanderthal dominated world that recieves an influx of standard fantasy races (elves, dwarves, etc) fleeing an apocalypse on their own world.</li> </ul>Of course, this makes it not really Stone Age anymore, as they bring Medieval level technology with them, which disseminates throughout the emerging human civilizations.  Still, for my money, that's more interesting than some kinda hoaky kill the saber-tooth campaign setting anyway.  Not that yours is, but some of the ideas I saw tossed around here would certainly make me shy away...</blockquote>

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