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ysabetwordsmithNew evidence reveals advanced maritime technology in the philippines 35,000 years ago
In a bold reimagining of Southeast Asia s prehistory, scientists reveal that the Philippine island of Mindoro was a hub of human innovation and migration as far back as 35,000 years ago. Advanced tools, deep-sea fishing capabilities, and early burial customs show that early humans here weren t isolated they were maritime pioneers shaping a wide-reaching network across the region.
In a bold reimagining of Southeast Asia s prehistory, scientists reveal that the Philippine island of Mindoro was a hub of human innovation and migration as far back as 35,000 years ago. Advanced tools, deep-sea fishing capabilities, and early burial customs show that early humans here weren t isolated they were maritime pioneers shaping a wide-reaching network across the region.
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Date: 2025-06-13 04:13 am (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2025-06-13 05:01 am (UTC)Because I know how it's done, feel free to prompt me for any of that in Beneath the Family Tree. I've already chipped in a few things like the discovery of string and felt.
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Date: 2025-06-13 06:23 am (UTC)Like, Mexico had canals, a city built over water, and money with a stone-age tech base when the Europeans arrived. I've never seen a prehistory setup with that much, well...'culture.' The Polynesians have a very highly evolved seafaring culture, based on non-fossilizable wood, which in many ways rivals modern long-voyage small boats, and the Inuit have very specialized skills to survive up north including symbiosis with the local wildlife and fermented meat dishes. We rarely see those sorts of specialization in skills or tech.
Heck, aside from Earth's Children, I don't think I've ever seen one of those stories that has /alcohol/.
That genre...it likes to look at a specific level of tech with very few variations. And there's also an overabundance of 'first person to use fire-tech,' 'first person to go to the new continent,' etc stories.
Or...remember at one point I mentioned a prehistory-as-fantasy idea, where the wooly-rhino-unicorns were still plentiful, and the Denisovan Sky people were like elves living in the mountains? Something like that.
There's a lot of stuff that could have existed, and been erased without a trace over the last 1.5 million years.
...Separate idea, it would also be interesting seeing a modern person get sent back to prehistory several million years ago and then have them do things like teach the local homo habilis troop to paint eyespots on each other so's not to be eaten by big cats. (I wonder how that would affect the timestream?)