prehistory

Until fairly recently, dinosaurs got a bad rap. While there were scientists in the 19th and early 20th centuries that advanced theories of dinosaurs as active and intelligent animals, from the 1930s onward, the most common image of dinosaurs was the stereotype of the dinosaur as a dimwitted...

Greetings, everyone. This thread is a replacement for the apparently concluded thread started in 2019 by Tempered Zen. I intend this thread to be a continuation of that earlier discussion, but in a forum with more impact and with greater longevity. Things to discuss in this thread (friendly...

I was looking to develop an alternate Indo-European culture for a AH/conlang project. While I was looking at places where it would make sense that a new group of IE people settle, North-Western Africa caught my eye. As I understand there is little to no evidence of IE people crossing the Strait...

Horses evolved in the planes of the north american continent. Eventually in prehistoy (can't remember the time frame, it was before the rise of civilization but they were domesticated after) most horse breeds had migrated to Afro-eurasia, or gone extinct. What if they remained in America in...

Something that I have heard from geopolitically savvy and politically inclined friends and colleagues of mine are frequent laments about how resource rich the Congo is. One of them constantly asks me why the Congo of all places is and was not more economically advanced in the past. Now, I am of...

Hello everyone, here is my third timeline. It is going to be much more limited in content (the framework is a History Class at an alternate institution of higher education which discusses one single source), and at the same time much more insanely divergent from anything we know than any of my...

With a PoD after 5000 BCE, prevent the emergence of the specific Eurasian variety of nomadic steppe-dwelling soceties which are based on horsemanship, i.e. horse-drawn wagons, riding horses, later horseback bowmen etc. (The PoD limit prevents any very early extinctions of the horse in Eurasia...

There have been plenty of discussions and even timelines on AH.com (and elsewhere in the online AH community) about Native Americans developing a more active use of bronze metalworking, for tool and weapon use alike. In OTL, only the Incas in South America eventually developed more of a...

It is often said that African prehistory and antiquity, with the exception of Egypt, "went straight from the Neolithic to the Iron Age". I'm not an expert in this field (something I regret), and newer finds and research might invalidate this long-held claim, but I nevertheless have interest in...