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[dolari]

Plots for the caveman story:

1) Creation story
2) Tribe by the sea, dealing with tribe members who want to stay, or move back home.
3) Han'a/Nen'a/Emm'a/Manwaz story
4) Tribe near the mountains. Tribe members are kidnapped by a competing tribe that is dying out, possibly the last Neandethals, to try and keep their own tribe going. The tribe is driven into the mountains
5) Mountain story, tribe is dying from the coldand struggles to adapt...more story needed
6) Dispersion across the plains, contrasts with Story #2 about how attitudes change after a disaster.
7) Finding the new home on the edge of the world.

Comments

[aspasia13.livejournal.com]

If it helps at all, since you mentioned Neanderthals I thought I might mention a couple things, in case you didn't already know them:

* In areas where Cro Magnon and Neanderthal sites have been found, with overlapping dates, comparisons show a general preference of Neanderthal to choose sites lower in valleys than Cro Magnon. There has been some speculation that this difference may have allowed Cro Magnon to better observe migration patterns of herd animals.

* DNA analysis has shown distinct differences between Neanderthal and "modern" human DNA, and shows that modern humans probably didn't inherit anything from them. This doesn't necessarily mean the two never interbred, but rather that Neanderthals and any potential Neanderthal-"modern" hybrids are truly extinct and had no genetic influence on "modern" humans.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>In areas where Cro Magnon and Neanderthal sites have been found, with
>overlapping dates, comparisons show a general preference of
>Neanderthal to choose sites lower in valleys than Cro Magnon.

O_O

This fits almost 100% into the story I'd already written for them, which ends with the Neaderthals pushing the tribe higher into the mountains.

On of the bad things I'm doing, though, is playing with history. All this takes place 14,000BC - NEanderthals were long since gone by then. The NEanderthal tribe, though, may have been the last of their kind (If I remember, Enkidu was a "wildman" in the Epic of Gilgamesh - a possible Neanderthal.