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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

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Good places for a lay-person to learn about paleolithic to neolithic hominid culture? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 months ago by ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/archaeology@mander.xyz
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Had a cool idea for an ttrpg about growing up in a hunter-gatherer culture in a stone-age fantasy setting. The coolest part of idea, for me as the writer/designer, would be to have a section on "rituals" where I describe their technologies as magical rituals, not just a series of materials and steps. For example, instead of saying "you can get a +1 bonus on knapping checks by heat-treating your toolstone" it would be described as blessing the toolstone with fire, which leads into the idea of magic rock that has been fire-blessed by volcano spirits (obsidian).

I am vaguely aware of other technologies, such as extracting glue from animal hide and a tree fungus that smolders for fucking forever when lit, but my knowledge of these is limited. I need a more thorough knowledge of how exactly the pre-agriculture hominids did these things if I want to wax poetic about it.

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[โ€“] MostlyTato@mstdn.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@fossilesque @ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling
I can recommend Richard Bradley's work, having contributed to it myself. There is quite a bit on ritual meaning in the landscape as expressed by Neolithic monumentalism, derived from the pre-existing perceived meaning over various natural places.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203630228/archaeology-natural-places-richard-bradley

[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

That's a good one. :)