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I got into than verb fight with some people who said that cavemen didnot have than writen language. First it they wrote on leave,bark,or animal hide it is mostly they would survival the passage of time.Second the cave painting is also than form of written language. Third how long would the evidence survival that we have than written language last if we suffer than event which lead to the end of mankind,let say 50,000 years went by. |
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05-14-2009, 09:43 PM | #12 |
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In order to have a written language (even pictographs), you need to have time to create writing. People who spend all their time hunting/gathering don't have time to invent writing. And even if they did, who would they share it with? The wandering band they meet in the forest?
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05-14-2009, 10:26 PM | #14 | |
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egypt.Scienist expect the writing to be less complex than writing after 3000 bce it turn out the writing was just as complex. Many factor like burning builting can destory earler writeing that some people kept other natural distake will destory evidence of civilation. The lion with the human head was found to have being make between 13500 and 10000 bce. Than stream engine can be make out clay pot with wood replace the metal apart it just wouldnot be as powerful as later one. Stonehegre turn out to be than astror computer built to prefict future lumar and solar elip and act as than caladar. Last edited by Barenziah58; 05-14-2009 at 10:36 PM. |
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05-14-2009, 11:00 PM | #16 |
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So, for writing...aside from the impossibility of absolutely proving that something didn't exist (as opposed to establishing good evidence), we've pretty well verified that pre-literate human societies can exist, because they still do.
A very low powered thing that could be styled a steam engine might be buildable out of stone-age materials (I imagine hanging a crude aeolipile-type jet assembly from a cord, since you couldn't really make a bearing. I am not a mechanical engineer). I'm not sure what you think you could do with one, though, if it worked at all... Stonehenge demonstrates that the fairly-ancients had good memory and could recognize patterns. Not sure why you think that says anything much about technology. |
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05-15-2009, 06:57 PM | #20 |
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Well, I think it's a brilliant resource, but I'm one of the credited playtesters, so I'm extremely biased.
Even with that disclaimer, I have to admit that as much as I love the game and the sourcebook, I can't recall ever seeing someone claim to have run a campaign in the setting. I remember lots of discussions of what people would do with the setting if they ran it, but no war stories about actual play sessions.
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