Urbanisation and the evolution of cities in Dimland across 10,000 years, Neolithic and bronze age
Introduction
Welcome everyone to a new fascinating series. This series is about how cities in Dimland evolved through time. While this is a fictional work, is based on real historical facts of how the first cities organized, grow and eventually declined . For the most people antiquity is considered something distant, even indifferent and the remains of those cities are just rocks here and there. The truth is that 10.000 years may seem distant, but considering the age of our planet and the cosmic time, in 24-hour life span the entire human history is just 5 seconds old. Within those 5 seconds humanity developed agriculture, processed metals, created art, science, culture, discovered new governing system- democracy-, then, industrialized the production, flew like a bird, set a foot to another solar body, saw the edge of the visible universe. Enjoy!!
From Homo erectus to Neolithic Period
Our journey begins from an area called Exomburg and a small town where located the "University of Simanthropology" and the "National Museum of Paleontology and simanthropology" next to a cave where discovered a human fossil 400.000 years old. In this area has been discovered a large number of dinosaur bones and fossils.
National Museum of Paleontology and Simanthropology
Cave's entrance
A group of very large geoglyphs made in the soil of the Exomburg. They were created between 18500 BC and 14500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving differently colored dirt exposed. Anthropologists, ethnologists, and archaeologists have studied the ancient culture of this area to try to determine the purpose of the lines and figures. One hypothesis is that the those people created them to be seen by deities in the sky or maybe related to astronomy and cosmology, as has been common in monuments of other ancient cultures: the lines were intended to act as a kind of observatory, to point to the places on the distant horizon where the sun and other celestial bodies rose or set at the solstices. (inspired by Nazca lines in Peru, the real Nazca lines were created between 500 BC and 500 AD )
The first Neolithic lakeshore settlement in Dimland, 5,500 BC
The Neolithic Age marks a period of prehistory in which humans used primitive stone tools. Lasting roughly 2.5 million years, the Stone Age ended around 5,000 years ago when humans in the Near East began working with metal and making tools and weapons from bronze. During the Neolithic Age, humans shared the planet with a number of now-extinct hominin relatives, including Neanderthals and Denisovans.
The site appears to have been occupied over a long period, from the final stages of the Middle Neolithic (5600-5000 BC) to the Final Neolithic (3000 BC). A number of items were found, including ceramics, wooden structural elements, seeds, bones, figurines, personal ornaments, flutes and what appears to be the most significant finding, the inscribed Tablet.
Dimini settlement. 5,000 BC
Bronze Age
Ancient acropolis of Asini
Valley of the Kings, Tombs
The palace of Tyrins
City of Iion
Ithaca
Mycenaean palace of Penthesili
The "Bronze age museum"
Late Bronze Age collapse
The half-century between c. 1200 and 1150 BCE saw the cultural collapse of the Mycenaean kingdoms, of the Kassites in Babylonia, of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia and the Levant, and the New Kingdom of Egypt; the destruction of Ugarit and the Amorite states in the Levant, the fragmentation of the Luwian states of western Anatolia, and a period of chaos in Canaan. The deterioration of these governments interrupted trade routes and severely reduced literacy in much of this area. volcanic eruptions, droughts, invasions by the Sea Peoples or migrations of Dorians, economic disruptions due to the rising use of ironworking, and changes in military technology and methods of war that saw the decline of chariot warfare was many of the causes for the collapse.
End of part one
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