WI: the last Ice Age cooled back down...

Challenge: Get humans to Antarctica...

...after the Ice Age. do not use any other methods besides walking or canoes.

i really wanna see how creative you guys are
 
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Doesn't alternate geography stuff belong in ASB? :confused:

But in any case, it would be thousands of years before the first settlers and native Americas (or at least hundreds of years).

And if they reach Antarctica, remember that it is still an ice age. So Antarctica is even more inhospitable, and any Indians stupid enough to make the crossing are killed off.
 

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They die and they die. Whatever it might have done for the human race as a whole the Ice Ages were generally a real bitch on the individual humans and/or bands. Even the worst deserts have their Tuareg and Bedouin but AFAIK nobody lives on glaciers.
 
Doesn't alternate geography stuff belong in ASB? :confused:

But in any case, it would be thousands of years before the first settlers and native Americas (or at least hundreds of years).

And if they reach Antarctica, remember that it is still an ice age. So Antarctica is even more inhospitable, and any Indians stupid enough to make the crossing are killed off.

technically not geography.

so at least 1500 years after they left Alaska. they're all over the americas.

lets turn this into a challenge. get ancient human settlers to Antarctica without using any methods besides walking or canoe/small sailing vessals
 
You can get Tierra del Fugan natives there no problem. Having them survive for any amount of time is more difficult.

Unlike the far North, there is no real land-path to Antarctica that lets humans pick up skills to deal with an increasingly hostile environment as they go.

Maybe a short, sharp improvement in temperature could see a brief norse-greenland style habitiation that gets wiped out when the climate cools.

Otherwise I thnk the best bet is a colonial power transplanting Eskimos there, and keep trading with them.
 
why settle antartica? whats on antartica? what do they eat on antartica? why? why would anione go setling antartica? why would anione go north if its an ice age? ewrione was staing as far away from the glaciers and polar cold as they could, why would anione go walking around antartica, its hard to do today let alone in an ice age
 
why settle antartica? whats on antartica? what do they eat on antartica? why? why would anione go setling antartica? why would anione go north if its an ice age? ewrione was staing as far away from the glaciers and polar cold as they could, why would anione go walking around antartica, its hard to do today let alone in an ice age

thats why its a challenge...
 
why settle antartica? whats on antartica? what do they eat on antartica? why? why would anione go setling antartica? why would anione go north if its an ice age? ewrione was staing as far away from the glaciers and polar cold as they could, why would anione go walking around antartica, its hard to do today let alone in an ice age

Well people always do live everywhere.
Very few people have the choice of where they live, you always get groups filling all sorts of hard to survive niches..

I seem to remember a TL someone did on the old board on Antarctican natives (Yamania or something?)
 
Humans in Antarctica

I believe the challange is that it's after the last Ice Age. So, move natives from the Teira del fuago islands less than a hundred miles south to the Antarctic pinensula to hunt penguines, seals, sealions, fish, and maybe whales. The northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula is above the antarctic circle, so the climate, while harsh, isn't any worse than northern Alaska. People could survive there, not well, but they could. Trade all the stuff you've caught for whatever the guys 'up north' are willing to part with, it may be do-able.
 
I believe the challange is that it's after the last Ice Age. So, move natives from the Teira del fuago islands less than a hundred miles south to the Antarctic pinensula to hunt penguines, seals, sealions, fish, and maybe whales. The northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula is above the antarctic circle, so the climate, while harsh, isn't any worse than northern Alaska. People could survive there, not well, but they could. Trade all the stuff you've caught for whatever the guys 'up north' are willing to part with, it may be do-able.

ok. good. now the tricky part. would it be possible for them to spread throughout the continent? using the natural ice flows for housing?
 
I believe the challange is that it's after the last Ice Age. So, move natives from the Teira del fuago islands less than a hundred miles south to the Antarctic pinensula to hunt penguines, seals, sealions, fish, and maybe whales. The northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula is above the antarctic circle, so the climate, while harsh, isn't any worse than northern Alaska. People could survive there, not well, but they could. Trade all the stuff you've caught for whatever the guys 'up north' are willing to part with, it may be do-able.

Its actually worse than Northern Alaska. The Antarctic circumpolar current sees to that. I mean, its pretty much no topsoil even. Just rock.

And the problem is that that hundred miles hop from Tierra del Fugo sees a big change in climate and required survival skills. With no intermediate area to aqquire those skills, and a long and rather hideous crossing back for supplies.

If you look at a map, there is a lot of land going towards the north pole. People can drift up over generations, getting the needed skills slowly.

Perhaps if the del Fugeans get a bit more into seafaring, get them to the Falklands, then South Georgia? I think they'd need more myself, but...
 
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