300,000 B.C. start

[Joij21]

This is kinda old news, but turns out homo sapiens are older than we think (by at least 100,000 more years).

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...ly accepted members of our species, until now.

So I guess this means the start date has to be changed again

 

[Thunderbrd]

Well... it does say they weren't completely modernized homo sapiens in all physical features.

 

[Joij21]

Though they are still technically homo sapiens.

 

[Thunderbrd]

And they were ALREADY at stone tools... maybe we need to consider starting before H. Sapien as well.

 

[Joij21]

And they were ALREADY at stone tools... maybe we need to consider starting before H. Sapien as well.

Pretty much all hominids before homo sapiens had stone tools. And homo erectus was the first hominid to use fire, way before we existed.

 

[CreativeCaprine]

But consider this: Homo Sapiens need some time for each civ to become distinct and wander to their starting positions. (Even though they don't have Nomadic Lifestyle)

 

[Praetyre]

I'm in favour of a 300,000 BC start; it dovetails nicely not only with the Jebel Irhoud remains, but the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic, and (to a lesser extent) the emergence of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. The mentioned issues are part of the reason why my own (yet to be released) modmod will take a different approach to technology designed to avoid "You Have Researched Breathing" Syndrome; all playable civilizations will start with a "Homo sapiens sapiens Knowledge" tech (there will be analogous techs for NPCs, especially other hominids that I assume will eventually be added), which will enable the player to do anything Adamic man could (well, except live forever, but that's a different subject), such as control (not make) fire and wield spears.