Worldbuilding! Vol 4
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2023
- Hey! Next Volume's up and only after weeks of procrastinating! ^^" I'll be switching up the style to digital art for the shorts now to improve quality so the next volume will hopefully look better? :) Hope you enjoy!
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When you eventually get to early villages and settlements you should draw a village getting burned to the ground, and later when you get to more modern era, make it an archeological site, i think that would be cool
That's an excellent idea! I've got a few rough concepts like that already I'd like to put in once the tech tree grows enough :)))
Your work it's extremly intresting. I give you some notes on nomadism and migration. As you said, nomadism is not simply going where your prey takes you. There are patterns. But land management by nomads is much more complex than you described. I'll give you a specific example, but this applies to some extent to all hunter-gatherers. Often a band had a very large territory, which however it didn't use all together: this was further divided trying to ensure that in one of these areas there was, during the year, everything the band needed. Within this smaller area, people moved throughout the year and the various areas were used for different purposes, and the band did not always move as a whole. Every certain amount of time (which can vary between five and ten years) the band moves to another area, and so on until in half a century perhaps a person could return to where he was born. Expansion typically occurred when overpopulation or natural disasters caused the band to split up and some of the population moved elsewhere. These groups either joined another band, thus bringing genetic material and avoiding excessive inbreeding, or they established a new territory. The size of these territories and the frequency of transfers obviously depend on the resources available. The example I gave you comes from a study of Alaskan peoples, who needed huge territories, almost as big as Wales. In other areas of the world it can happen that production is so high as to make them permanent, as happened in Japan twenty thousand years ago. Just think that here we found the oldest pottery in history, completely incompatible with a nomadic lifestyle. They lived mainly from fishing and shellfish gathering.
A very interesting case study is that of Gobekli Tepe. This site in Turkey is incredibly interesting because it is the first temple in history. It seems to have been an extremely important place, where it is thought that various band gathered periodically to perform common rituals, and apparently supported a group of people who remained to take care of the temple. It is extremely interesting because small spelled grew in that area, which is the first cereal ever cultivated and perhaps it was precisely to support them that the process that would lead to agriculture was started. And it doesn't even mean that there weren't similar places around the world. It is said that the caves of Lascaux were not such a place. (I don't know if "band" is the correct translation because in anthropology "band" "tribe" and "clan" have precise and different meanings).
Oh wow that's so much information! Thankyou for taking the time to write it out, and I'll look into nomads further, I had no idea about a lot of this! Thankyou so much! Particularly about the distinctions between clans, tribes and bands. I'll have to make sure I'm using the right one :)
@@hannahsmth There are other things you need to take into consideration as well. Rarely did a band of hunter-gatherers live hand to mouth. There are many methods by which they obtain surpluses that can be kept for a long time. Taking up the example of the natives of Alaska, when large herds of reindeer arrive they did not hunt one or two, but dozens and dozens, sometimes even more, at once. In fact, many deposits that were believed to be long-established had to be reconsidered after the studies on these populations, given that when they did this type of hunting they left a considerable number of discarded bones. In Saudi Arabia we found huge structures that served the very purpose of herding animals and killing them in large numbers (and in fact this was one of the things that caused the Arabian Peninsula to become so inhospitable today). Furthermore, when they did so, they not only preserved it, but also prepared some sorts of ice houses (holes that reached the permafrost surrounded by stones and with a peat roof) where they kept the meat, so as to be sure of finding in their movements some food supplies. Also regarding the structures, these weren't so much improvised. They weren't real houses, but Paleolithic huts cannot be compared to Bedouin tents. They had to last at least a few years and resist bad weather. Furthermore, they not only built huts for people to live in, but scattered the area where they lived with traps, observation points and processing areas. Now, all of this probably doesn't apply to the Tala band which clearly seems to have originated from the abandonment of a larger band. But it can be useful in building the story.
The tiny differences between the smaller groups of cultures that we usually just lump together in history is one of my favourite things to explore. It feels like a much more personal, individual look at people in the past when you explore the nuances within these small groups of people who would have a largely shared experience of the world, but small variations in their tribe to tribe interpretations of it.
I'm really loving how your stone age worldbuilding is coming along. It's so rare that we get worldbuilding that covers prehistory as well as the rest of the ages.
I must admit your bit about the stars immortalizing heroes and great battles made me think of an old picture book I read about the Greek myths, using a similar idea to explain the constellations. It's amazing how different cultures can come up with similar ideas and traditions (for example the rain dance)
1:11 FIRE 🔥
I'm really excited to read your web comic when it comes out. Take your time and don't stress over it. You got this =)
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5:50 is a nice still, also do something with hair braiding
Hello just wanna say ur worldbuilnding is amazing!^3^
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Just feeding the algorithm here!
Stuff's great!
Nothing we haven't said, though! XD
Check out the song Kungan-Tallah. Could be a good theme song for your main protagonist maybe? Hehe
Can you imagine how many archeological mysteries that we'll never get the answers to could be solved with a 15 minute conversation with Tala? 😭
I need to know, where did you get your pencil, pen I don't know!
Hi! It's pretty much a standard mechanical pencil, with an HB 0.5mm lead! Hope this helps! ^^"
1:42 Flint and what?
Speaking of stars, sometimes called "the worlds oldest story" is that about the six stars of the Pleiades, about which many cultures tell of a group of sisters or brothers losing one of their number, and still refer to the cluster as '7 sisters'. Did I say 6 stars? I meant 7 stars, 2 of which have moved almost in line with one another, appearing as one to the naked eye, last distinguishable sometime around 100,000 BCE.
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So this was before we even had dogs (domesticated about 30 thousand years ago from what I remember)... I wonder if your main character would ever get used to how modern humans treat creatures that may have hunted her as a child as practically adopted children? As a child I slept with large dog in the bed with me, a rotterwilder/shepard mix. Which I imagine would horrify the members of this clan.