Here's to some ideas and hopefully good concepts to really enrich Caveman to Cosmos' prehistoric era, and maybe more. Any ideas relating to the prehistoric era (and maybe beyond) are welcome, but the focus here is on paleo.
So here is just some ideas/concepts:
CIVS =
A new starting culture. Paleo Culture. Not European, African, etc.
Cro-Magnon
Idaltu Man
Northern Neandertal (Alpine Neanderthal? Nordic Neanderthal?)
Southern Neandertal (Dead Sea Neandertal?)
Rhodesian
Paleo-Indian
Aborigine (these people have remained virtually unchanged since the Pleistocene, and are the closest thing we have to a written/documented record of the Pleistocene era.)
?Namaqua? (still show cultural things nearly unchanged since the Ice Age)
-Starting culture = Paleolithic/Ice Age/Paleo Culture
-to build their unique cultures requires Paleo Culture and REQUIRMENTS (resources, tech - etc)
Rhodesian Man a.k.a. Homo heidelbergensis (?a.k.a. the Nephilim of the Old Testament?)
Why should this be a civ? A overflowing stream of finds and information show that these people were very advanced, were the first people to create AND perfect weapons we attribute to H.s.sapiens (us), had a religion, burial tombs, religous burial tombs, religious ceremonies, and interspecies habitation. From the bones, they could speak and could differentiate between different tones and sounds on a complex level, probably meaning complex language. As one begins to witness their tombs, artifacts, paintings, etc., it begins obvious these people may have had a nation, or number of nations throughout NE Africa and ME. They show a series of beliefs that attest to ceremonial burial, ceremonial blades, burial tombs, religous castes, shamanistic beast-man dancing, and working with neandertal and humans concerning burial and the afterlife with ceremonies.
It is believed they are the ancestors of us while in Africa, those who left into Europe became the neandertals, and some going eastward intermixed with Homo sapiens to become what is known as Denisovans.
Sadly, Caveman to Cosmos carries a 1 UU per civ. Once you begin studying these people, they were so incredible that they might need more than one. Or maybe thats just the paleontologist in me talking. They also show that the first warriors used thrusting spears, throwing spears and large hand-axes for combat, not clubs.
Rhodesian Man or Homo heidelbergensis:
(for the laymen, just think pretty much neandertals of ME and Africa)
http://prehistorialdia.blogspot.com/...ca-de-las.html
http://artofpetry.blogspot.com/2014/...is-femele.html
CULTURE UNIT:
-Schoningen Spears (first known perfected throwing spears). So good with these, it might be best to replace them with archers? They seemed to have stayed with long distance hardened spears for thousands and thousands of years, they had a superiority in range over stone tips, which H.heidelberg had already perfected and had in play.
-Stone Spear (first well-hafted stone spears, improved over what our species had for QUITE some time. Very likely, through trade, meeting, and religion that we got ours from them.)
CULTURE UNIT for Paleolithism?
Ruby Quartz Blade: A person of major religious importance and leadership. High priest of a cave temple-tomb. Sort of a ambassador/advisor, since their tombs show mixed species and centuries of religious import and accumulation. Not a combat unit, but one who can convert combat units to his religion and to guard his tomb/town. Most likely had warrior guards and hunter guards that belonged to the temple who "procure" the bodies of guardian animals...unless they could tame bears. LOL. I know, but still. Tame Church Bears is...thats just delicious! "Dont talk in church or that Yogi gonna come over here." Ahem, Im sorry. Just still.......Synagogue bear...ok. I'll stop. Dammit, Boonkie.
.....damn. Ok.
TEMPLE BEAR:
Why? Because shut up.
On the serious side, maybe subdued bears that are butchered in the city add science and hammers to the temples or cave plot-turned-temple for cities with Paleolithism.
On the not so serious side, Temple Bears. A bear attacking your enemies for your religon. Convert or...bear.
-H. Antecessor. (this controversial species' only remains are found in small numbers buried in what seem to be mass tombs by H.heidelbergensis. Conincidence? Slaves? ...pets?
CULTURE BUILDING:
-Sima de los Huesos (replaces?) Over 500,000 people were buried here. There also was found a giant, red-quartz hand axe nicknamed "Excalibur" by finders, a ceremonial/ritual blade for burials.
Bears were also ritually buried there among the dead. Why? Guardians of the afterlife? Offerings?
Cave paintings show they may have had a religion that included shamanistic dancing, and from what is on the cave wall, a half gemsbok/gazelle man in a transecendent dance. May have started off unique to heidelbergensis, and spread through the ME. It was not a general basic ceremony, but from remains they had a grounded religion....but we dont know what the hell to call it. (Paleolithism?) Or more details of it. But it did include figures, temple-tombs, priest-roles/professions/castes, and caused humans and neanderthal people nearby to make pilgrimages to bury special people, and some of these seem to have been handled by H.heidelbergensis in burial - so either the dead were handed over or either they came to get the dead to those who followed the relgion, unless neandertal and human students came to become priests themselves?
Skhul Cave, where other sub-species of men (H.s.sapien, H.s.neandertalensis) were buried. It may have been a tomb of great Homo heidelbergensis that began allowing neandertal and human great men to be buried there as well. For such pilgrimages and H.heidelberg handling the bodies while controlling the tomb, this may have been a tomb or temple of a religion or a Kemetic style of "shelf" of religions. Those belonging to the religion or respecting the heidelbergs controlling the cave may have made special funeral trips, and thus may have all been brothers of the same religion.
So here is just some ideas/concepts:
CIVS =
A new starting culture. Paleo Culture. Not European, African, etc.
Cro-Magnon
Idaltu Man
Northern Neandertal (Alpine Neanderthal? Nordic Neanderthal?)
Southern Neandertal (Dead Sea Neandertal?)
Rhodesian
Paleo-Indian
Aborigine (these people have remained virtually unchanged since the Pleistocene, and are the closest thing we have to a written/documented record of the Pleistocene era.)
?Namaqua? (still show cultural things nearly unchanged since the Ice Age)
-Starting culture = Paleolithic/Ice Age/Paleo Culture
-to build their unique cultures requires Paleo Culture and REQUIRMENTS (resources, tech - etc)
Rhodesian Man a.k.a. Homo heidelbergensis (?a.k.a. the Nephilim of the Old Testament?)
Why should this be a civ? A overflowing stream of finds and information show that these people were very advanced, were the first people to create AND perfect weapons we attribute to H.s.sapiens (us), had a religion, burial tombs, religous burial tombs, religious ceremonies, and interspecies habitation. From the bones, they could speak and could differentiate between different tones and sounds on a complex level, probably meaning complex language. As one begins to witness their tombs, artifacts, paintings, etc., it begins obvious these people may have had a nation, or number of nations throughout NE Africa and ME. They show a series of beliefs that attest to ceremonial burial, ceremonial blades, burial tombs, religous castes, shamanistic beast-man dancing, and working with neandertal and humans concerning burial and the afterlife with ceremonies.
It is believed they are the ancestors of us while in Africa, those who left into Europe became the neandertals, and some going eastward intermixed with Homo sapiens to become what is known as Denisovans.
Sadly, Caveman to Cosmos carries a 1 UU per civ. Once you begin studying these people, they were so incredible that they might need more than one. Or maybe thats just the paleontologist in me talking. They also show that the first warriors used thrusting spears, throwing spears and large hand-axes for combat, not clubs.
Rhodesian Man or Homo heidelbergensis:
(for the laymen, just think pretty much neandertals of ME and Africa)
http://prehistorialdia.blogspot.com/...ca-de-las.html
http://artofpetry.blogspot.com/2014/...is-femele.html
CULTURE UNIT:
-Schoningen Spears (first known perfected throwing spears). So good with these, it might be best to replace them with archers? They seemed to have stayed with long distance hardened spears for thousands and thousands of years, they had a superiority in range over stone tips, which H.heidelberg had already perfected and had in play.
-Stone Spear (first well-hafted stone spears, improved over what our species had for QUITE some time. Very likely, through trade, meeting, and religion that we got ours from them.)
CULTURE UNIT for Paleolithism?
Ruby Quartz Blade: A person of major religious importance and leadership. High priest of a cave temple-tomb. Sort of a ambassador/advisor, since their tombs show mixed species and centuries of religious import and accumulation. Not a combat unit, but one who can convert combat units to his religion and to guard his tomb/town. Most likely had warrior guards and hunter guards that belonged to the temple who "procure" the bodies of guardian animals...unless they could tame bears. LOL. I know, but still. Tame Church Bears is...thats just delicious! "Dont talk in church or that Yogi gonna come over here." Ahem, Im sorry. Just still.......Synagogue bear...ok. I'll stop. Dammit, Boonkie.
.....damn. Ok.
TEMPLE BEAR:
Why? Because shut up.
On the serious side, maybe subdued bears that are butchered in the city add science and hammers to the temples or cave plot-turned-temple for cities with Paleolithism.
On the not so serious side, Temple Bears. A bear attacking your enemies for your religon. Convert or...bear.
-H. Antecessor. (this controversial species' only remains are found in small numbers buried in what seem to be mass tombs by H.heidelbergensis. Conincidence? Slaves? ...pets?
CULTURE BUILDING:
-Sima de los Huesos (replaces?) Over 500,000 people were buried here. There also was found a giant, red-quartz hand axe nicknamed "Excalibur" by finders, a ceremonial/ritual blade for burials.
Bears were also ritually buried there among the dead. Why? Guardians of the afterlife? Offerings?
Cave paintings show they may have had a religion that included shamanistic dancing, and from what is on the cave wall, a half gemsbok/gazelle man in a transecendent dance. May have started off unique to heidelbergensis, and spread through the ME. It was not a general basic ceremony, but from remains they had a grounded religion....but we dont know what the hell to call it. (Paleolithism?) Or more details of it. But it did include figures, temple-tombs, priest-roles/professions/castes, and caused humans and neanderthal people nearby to make pilgrimages to bury special people, and some of these seem to have been handled by H.heidelbergensis in burial - so either the dead were handed over or either they came to get the dead to those who followed the relgion, unless neandertal and human students came to become priests themselves?
Skhul Cave, where other sub-species of men (H.s.sapien, H.s.neandertalensis) were buried. It may have been a tomb of great Homo heidelbergensis that began allowing neandertal and human great men to be buried there as well. For such pilgrimages and H.heidelberg handling the bodies while controlling the tomb, this may have been a tomb or temple of a religion or a Kemetic style of "shelf" of religions. Those belonging to the religion or respecting the heidelbergs controlling the cave may have made special funeral trips, and thus may have all been brothers of the same religion.