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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Prehistory=== | ===Prehistory=== | ||
Ilánova was joined to the Kiravian mainland in the {{wp|Late Pleistocene}}, until sea levels rose about 10,000 years ago. Human remains and Paleolithic artifacts dated up to 20,000 years ago have been found, demonstrating that Ilánova formed part of the land- and ice-bridge complex that enabled the migration of ''Homo sapiens'' to Great Kirav during the Ice Age, and presumably served the same purpose for the more archæic hominins ''Homo vetus montanis'' and ''Homo darudensis'' before them. | Ilánova was joined to the Kiravian mainland in the {{wp|Late Pleistocene}}, until sea levels rose about 10,000 years ago. Human remains and Paleolithic artifacts dated up to 20,000 years ago have been found, demonstrating that Ilánova formed part of the land- and ice-bridge complex that enabled the migration of ''Homo sapiens'' to Great Kirav during the Ice Age, and presumably served the same purpose for the more archæic hominins ''Homo vetus montanis'' and ''Homo darudensis'' before them. Before sea levels rose, the lands recognisible as Ilánova today would have been a raised plateau. | ||
==== Convoīon Culture ==== | |||
The Convoīon Culture, known from a handful of sites in [[Ilánova]], represented the next known archæological culture of Kiravia to develop after the Demomappic, appearing by 17,600 BC. The Convoīon culture possessed a much more diversified toolmaking repertoire, utilising a wider range of materials than the stone-prone Demomappic, to include {{wp|hematite}}, worked animal {{wp|bone|bones}}, and other naturally-occuring substances. The dramatically more sophisticated tool inventories found at so few dig sites suggests a society much more advanced in its economy and comfortable in its surroundings than its Demomappic predecessors, migrating less frequently and availing themselves of more thitherto untapped food sources. The Convoīon Culture appears to have employed more specialized hunting, fishing, and collecting techniques, in contrast to the post-migration Demomappic generalist hunters. It is also the Convoīon culture that left the first unambiguous examples of {{wp|rock art}} in Kiravia. | |||
===Coscivian Civilisation=== | ===Coscivian Civilisation=== | ||