#early civilization

[antiquatedsimmer]

Wood & Stone Historical Recolors for B&H Pottery wheel & Kiln.

I tried to make these work OTG but unfortunately it's not as simple as making a lamp work off the grid :( They appear in the OTG categories but DO NOT work otg sorry!

If I can figure out coding more I will update.

Recommended Mods:

LittleMsSam made a mod allowing you to use the pottery wheel OTG (thank you so much) this mod works just fine with my recolors.

Download on my Patreon(Always Free) or SFS

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Work in progress (2)

Some pics from the Thalionides’ Palace.

The 1st floor is reserved for royal wives and their children.

[zombies-who-speak-simlish]

inside of the library

[twofingerswhiskey]

foodtimeline dot org has me fucked up. the first recipe ever was bread and soup. is this fucking anyone else up? this is incredible - a heavily researched obituary of humanity's stomachs. and we all just get to see what our ancestors ate in a neat timeline, like it's nothing. it took a lifetime of one woman's research, of thousands of others documenting it. we, historically, were just out here eating calamari before we had soup. entire generations before all that entails what we consider the written word, we had a group of our ancestors sitting around a fire eating soup and dunking bread into it.

don't you dare tell me this doesn't fascinate you.

the first recipe ever was bread and soup.

[twin-rabbit]

Jamaican Vacation: 2000BC

Water is a heck of a thing. You get yourself something with a good enough displacement ratio and you can haul amazing amounts of stuff with a fairly low caloric investment. Europe has known this for a long time. From Greek Triremes to Viking Longships, water-based traffic was such a big deal in the Pale People's Peninsula they had whole wars at sea.

The Armada? A bunch of ships.

Star Wars and Star Trek...? 'Ships'. Which makes absolutely no sense, given they're rockets moving in three dimensional space. Hell, the entire end of The Wrath of Khan was that Khan learned all his maneuvering strategy from sea battles so Kirk just pilots the Enterprise to come at him from above (spoilers). Even when we know they're not ships, we call them ships.

For my money the best is the Romans. They're like an empire of cats. All their warfare strategy was land-based, but because so many other cultures in the region used ships they developed a kind of bridge so when they ran up against another ship they could flood across to the other deck. A land battle, at sea. That's how popular boats were in the region, the Romans famous for refusing to adapt to anybody else, had to adapt to ships so they didn't get their little paws wet.

The English Language grew up as the spawn of a bunch of boat-obsessed people. Whole bits of Europe were torn up so they could make canals for boats. I think my favorite is canal bridges. Not bridges over canals, but canals that are bridges:

Hell, some of them love canals so damn much they've gone back to them after the whole 'massive roadway thing' turned out to be not as great as Henry Ford led them to believe:

What's with all the boat talk? Well funny thing, there's this creature called a "Dugout Canoe". They are a hell of a thing.

Technically they're less 'dugout' and more 'carved out', but why quibble. They're extremely technically precise even though they might not look it, because they require felling a single tree, hollowing it out without cracking it, then lighting a fire inside of it to 'cook' it, again without cracking it. Once it's been properly dried and cooked to tighten up the fibers so they 'seal', the inside is further coated with materials to make it waterproof and unlikely to fill your butt with splinters because you're gonna be sitting in this thing for a while.

More drying, more shaping, more drying, more shaping, and eventually you end up with one hell of a thing. As complicated as pottery, more durable than fiberglass, and, depending on the size of the log, as long as 20ft to carry all kinds of stuff (they're also heavy as hell, but I digress...). When done baking, remove from oven and decorate to taste. This one's in a Hawaiian style:

I want you to know about dugout canoes because you need that information for this next bit. In 2001 a location in Florida called Newnans Lake dried up. The local name is Lake Pithlachocco, it's just outside Gainsville. Droughts are bad, yes, but in this case they can at least be useful. When it dried up the locals noticed something very interesting, literal tons of what looked every bit like dugout canoes.

So they called some archaeologists and by the time they were done they'd identified almost 100 canoes some of which were over five thousand years old. For those of you who know your European history, that's not just pre-Greek, that's pre-Babylonian. It's almost pre-Sumerian. What's even more important is we find similar archaic-style canoes up by the Great Lakes and even as far south as the Orinoco River Valley in South America. Their style turned out to be so common researchers had to rewrite their timeline of when dugouts were popularized in the Gulf Coast.

Archaic Period Canoes from Newnans Lake, Florida | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Archaic Period Canoes from Newnans Lake, Florida - Volume 68 Issue 3

So, here's a question: why?

Why would they possibly assume the tribes of the Americas didn't know what canoes were extremely early on? Why would they just assume tribes living throughout a coastal and island region, wouldn't know how to build a reliable sea-fairing boat? They knew that made no sense. Europe is crisscrossed with thousands of miles of artificial waterways specifically because of personal boats.

And this isn't some kind of one-off. There are still history books that record Columbus being 'worshipped as a god' by the Taíno because he arrived on sea ships. That's just absurd. The worst version of that myth was in the 2004 movie "What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!?" (What the #$*! Do We Know) which proposed the Caribbean tribes were so baffled by the Spanish 'magical ships' they literally couldn't perceive the ships and so they assumed the Spanish were floating on clouds of air. In reality that's from a story invented by Captain Cook about the Tahitians, but that's kinda irrelevant because not only is it a nonsense story regardless, but the fact they didn't even know the difference between Atlantic Tribes and Pacific Tribes kinda proves the larger point. It's not about the information, it's about brown people being stupid and uncivilized. That movie made $10mil at the boxoffice (and another $5mil in international sales).

It's the same nonsense about how tribes didn't have the wheel. Even if that were true, which it isn't, so what? You're not gonna find a whole lotta evidence of llama-drawn carts in the middle of the Atlantic anyway because weirdly tribes in the Bahamas weren't in the habit of stupidly drowning their pack animals for failing to work out how logs float.

And they definitely had trans-continental trade. We find copper from ten thousand years ago, which originated in the Great Lakes, as far south as Venezuela. I suppose they coulda walked it, but even if they did Lake Pithlachocco proves they had more than one option. And either way that's longer and older than the Silk Road.

We even find carved stones with art styles similar to the mainland both north and south. An article on one researcher in the topic said when he first started the idea Caribbean tribes had regular travel was treated as though he was "speculating about Bigfoot or UFOs". Like... what the hell.

In case you're curious, the tribes he's referring to as technologically and artistically well-developed, who likely had a fairly robust relationship with the mainland, were creating petroglyphs and stone artworks like this one, from Isla de Juventud off the coast of Cuba, thousands of years ago.

So, anyway, next time you hear Natives weren't civilized, didn't have tech, didn't live in cities, didn't have international trade, and were just waiting around for Europeans to teach them how to human, just remember: The Mississippians had Caribbean vacations and art cliques when Sumeria was still working out how to spell their own names. Considering Europe is now having to 'regreen' their spaces using that self-same technology they were previously mocking Natives for favoring...? Well it's one hell of an irony at play.

[sa-characters]

Tarina Grypaetou (Née Amsharu) - Deceased

GENDER - Female

AGE - Elder

ASPIRATION - Bestselling Author

TRAITS: - Bookworm, Neat, Genius

SIGN: Leo

PARENTS - Unknown

PARTNER - Keftimícharos Grypaetós

CHILDREN - Ahdónh, Lachtaris,

Download: Not available

Story: Once Upon A Time - The first ones

Family tree: The first ones

Tarina is my Early Civilization self sim and can be seen in different public events and settings in Manthos village.

During play she came to take her own personality, and accordingly doing things a bit differently than I would have. Still, there are similarities!

No, Tarina is not my real name and she is a much prettier, smarter and younger version of me! 🌞

The picture with the white background is part of a render made by the lovely @estrellka-chipsa Thank you! 💕

[kyriat-sims]

Manthos BB set - Part one / Recolour

I wanted to build a Minoan castle but didn't find the elements I needed to achieve the look I wanted. So I had to make them 😊 In this set (1 of 2) you'll get three walls, a (decor) column, a pouf (which I use as column capital), and two fruit bowls.

Details and download under the cut.

You can see all swatches / photoes here. Download at the bottom of this post. The set is for The Sims 4, and you will find the items in game where you normally find this kind of objects, or by searching for Manthos or KyriaT.

Part two of the set can be found here.

Manthos walls (plain, top/bottom, side)

   Mesh: EA Base Game

   Found in Walls - paint

   Three sets: A Plain, B top/bottom and C side

   9 - 27 - 18 swatches (Knossos palette)

   Price 1 -2 -2 $

Manthos fruit bowl

   Mesh: EA Base Game

   Found in Decor - Misc/Clutter

   14 swatches (Knossos palette + patterns)

   Price 25 $

Manthos fruit bowl (low)

   Mesh: EA Base Game

   Found in Decor - Misc/Clutter

   13 swatches (Knossos palette + patterns)

   Price 9 $

Manthos Pouf

   Mesh: ❗TSR Soloriya Space Party Pouf (Not included) @soloriya

   Found in Comfort - Living chair

   20 swatches (Knossos palette)

   Price 14 $

   TOU: Please respect the TOU of the original creator as well as mine.

Manthos Columns

   Mesh: ❗TSR Simcredible! Tropic Columns *decor* (Not included)

   Found in Decorations - Misc

   9 swatches (Knossos palette)

   Price 20 $

   TOU: Please respect the TOU of the original creator as well as mine.

My TOU: Don’t upload and claim as your own. You may include in lots if you give credit with a link to this post, but please don’t upload to paysites or behind ad.fly.

You find all my CC on my blog or on my Patreon (free).

All items are made for Sims 4 using Gimp and Sims 4 Studio

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Thank you for sharing! 💕

[arthistorywitches]

To date, no images of adult male gods have been found on any of the Neolithic sites: males are always portrayed as infants or children, diminutive next to the figure of a Mother Goddess.

Shahrukh Husain, The Goddess  [From a comparative religion series which also includes books on Islam, ancient Africa, India, Rome, Vikings, etc.]