| From: | Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG> |
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| Subject: | Re: World Map |
| Date: | Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:43:21 -0800 |
>But looking more to the civilisations of South/Central America. That
>Mayan contructions, (and this comes from "official" archaeological
>material) *may* be greater than 10,000 years old. Some are acknowledged
>to be between 5 and 7,000. The newer ones are 500 - 2,000+ And
>although much of these civilisations and their buildings is still buried
>in the jungles, it has stood up amazingly well to time, and they're not
>just caves. :)
Are these freestanding buildings or things that are being dug out of the
ground? And are these even the Mayans, or some older mesoamerican people?
I thought the Mayans were a strictly first millennium CE bunch. The
Olmecs go back to the early second millennium BCE, but I didn't think
they had anything left standing. The Pueblo Indians had some interesting
cliff dwellings, but those are closer to the Aztec era, not very long
before Columbus showed up.
>There was also a recent discovery of a village somewhere or other, that
>is almost perfectly preserved, showing thatched roofed constructions of
>a few thousands years age.
Buried structures aren't habitable as is, have a tendency to crumble
when you pull the dirt out of them, and are unlikely to be useful places
for territory-seeking metahumans to settle. (Extremely inspiring to
peoples who would appreciate having a history to be proud of, yes.
A place to settle, no...)
> So.. who's to say what's buried under the
>sands of the middle east.
Babylon, Sumer, Uruk...
> After all, there is some considerable digging
>in Israel outside a couple of their towns, where they think they've
>found sites mentioned in the bible. There are a considerable number of
>constructions from the Native American tribes that stretch back a long
>ways, so, buildings and constructions surviving isn't so strange.
Are any of these constructions remotely habitable by human beings?
> if
>they are put together well enough, and the Dwarves _are_ master
>craftsmen, then ther is no reason they couldn't survive.
Two words: "tectonic activity".
> the insistence of elves in having a
>history, would, I think, logically set off other races into finding out
>the truth of the matter, and investigating their own past.
One decently-preserved kaer with evidence of lots of non-Elves getting
along together could do a great deal for the self esteem of metahumans.
It doesn't need to be habitable-- just documentable!
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