By prehistoric I mean after the emergence of anatomically modern humans and before the emergence/arrival of writing.
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Most intresting PODs would be:
Homo sapiens never go outside of Africa
No populating of Americas
By prehistoric I mean after the emergence of anatomically modern humans and the emergence/arrival of writing.
After emergence/arrival of writing. That wouldn´t be prehistoric so much, though
I feel both of those would be ASB.
I admit that keeping Homo sapiens in Africa might be difficult but I don't see Americas being without humans being very difficult.
I read a few times that there was a first wave of urbanisation, with things like the buried city in Turkey and others with no street in the same region. No collapse of that would be super interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe
No 6000 BC climate change.
Intransigent Southerner said:Gobekli Tepe wasn't a truly urbanized site, I'm not completely sure why so many people think this.
I seem to have fallen prey to pop history. I shall go apologise to the Gods.
That said, could you explain why you say that? Wasn't it a permanent habitat?
1. It is well known that human beings have the ability to memorize large chunks of data, and that writing is a "frozen/portable memory" device. Some people can memorize the contents of the entire Talmud.
If some tribe managed to take advantage of this and had a class of memorizers, like the human "books" in Fahrenheit 451, they would have a leg up on others, who would be compelled to follow suit. The existence of "Living Books", rather the perpetuation of knowledge, might enable technology to develop as OTL, but with writing arriving much later on the scene.
2. Neanderthals don't die out as a species (and, yes, I am aware their DNA is still with us.)
3. Australia maintains contact with Eurasia. The "unique" fauna is more widespread.
4. Agriculture is developed sooner and city-stated develop outside Mesopotamia first.