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''See also: [[Kiravo-Akhai Origins Conspiracy Theory]]'' | ''See also: [[Kiravo-Akhai Origins Conspiracy Theory]]'' | ||
The Akai Collapse, by convention, marks the beginning of the end of Deep Prehistory and the beginning of the beginning of Near Prehistory. This distinction is mainly of significance to dark philologists who place certain foundational events in Coscivian history, such as the formation of the [[Lawful Commonwealth]] at a much greater time depth than Occidental archæology permits, toward contemporaneity with Society I and/or Society II. | The Akai Collapse, by convention, marks the beginning of the end of Deep Prehistory and the beginning of the beginning of Near Prehistory. This distinction is mainly of significance to dark philologists who place certain foundational events in Coscivian history, such as the formation of the [[Lawful Commonwealth]] at a much greater time depth than Occidental archæology permits, toward contemporaneity with Society I and/or Society II. For archæologists, it marks the boundary between two superiodisations of the Kiravian Mesolithic: the comparatively rapid growth and development period of Society II prior to the Akai Collapse, and the slower, more gradual period of material redevelopment thereafter, which is dubbed the '''Second Kiravian Mesolithic''' and lasts until the inception of true agriculture. | ||
== Near Prehistory (ca. 7000 BC - 3200 BC) == | == Near Prehistory (ca. 7000 BC - 3200 BC) == | ||
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====Ʒ-Q Invasion==== | ====Ʒ-Q Invasion==== | ||
[[File:Gilsemans 1642.jpg|thumb|Artist's impression]] | |||
The Y-DNA haplogroups Ʒ and Q appear in the Kiravian gene pool around 7000 BC. Modern frequency distribution of these haplogroups correlates with two main variables: Proximity of subjects' [[Ancestral home (Kiravia)|ancestral home]] to the West Coast, and belonging to a traditionally Itaho-Atrassic-speaking ethnic group (such as Qihuxians, Ūtrans, West Coast Marine Coscivians). As such, the Ʒ-Q influx is most commonly attributed to a trans-oceanic migration from [[Crona]] or alternatively Vallos-Polynesia (a minority theory) as part of the wide-reaching dispersal of chiefly Audonian-origin peoples through the aforementioned regions beginning circa 8000 BC. Archæological and dark philological evidence points to this migration accelerating into a violent invasion of Kiravia by more advanced wandering Audonians that spread up and down the West Coast and inland therefrom until running up against early adoptors of potato-based agriculture, who were a closer match to the invaders militarily and enjoyed the advantage of highland geography in defending their homes. | The Y-DNA haplogroups Ʒ and Q appear in the Kiravian gene pool around 7000 BC. Modern frequency distribution of these haplogroups correlates with two main variables: Proximity of subjects' [[Ancestral home (Kiravia)|ancestral home]] to the West Coast, and belonging to a traditionally Itaho-Atrassic-speaking ethnic group (such as Qihuxians, Ūtrans, West Coast Marine Coscivians). As such, the Ʒ-Q influx is most commonly attributed to a trans-oceanic migration from [[Crona]] or alternatively Vallos-Polynesia (a minority theory) as part of the wide-reaching dispersal of chiefly Audonian-origin peoples through the aforementioned regions beginning circa 8000 BC. Archæological and dark philological evidence points to this migration accelerating into a violent invasion of Kiravia by more advanced wandering Audonians that spread up and down the West Coast and inland therefrom until running up against early adoptors of potato-based agriculture, who were a closer match to the invaders militarily and enjoyed the advantage of highland geography in defending their homes. | ||
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Sedentarism and proto-urbanisation allowed for burial practices and the understanding and practice of religion to become more developed. Earlier Kiravian burials were often marked with small stone cairns, but more permanent and sophisticated burial monuments than this would appear only in the latter half of the Kiravian neolithic in the form of standing stones and steles - some of these steles show traces of [[moon runes]] and other examples of {{wp|proto-writing}}. Monumental works would truly come into their own with the emergence of the cross-Kilikas megalithic culture, during which time more sophisticated societies - hypothesised to chiefly be chiefdoms in terms of political development rather than mere tribes or true states - were able to organise the labour- and time-intensive construction of massive stone monuments in service to their increasingly complex economic and religious needs. These centres of megalithic construction appeared in relatively qucik succession in the Baylands and adjacent portions of the South, and pockets further up the eastern and western seaboards, from which their approach to social organisation and construction would spread over successive centuries, leaving behind a widely distributed body of {{wp|menhir}}s, {{wp|dolmen}}s, {{wp|stone circle}}s, {{wp|kistvaen}}s {{wp|passage graves}}, {{wp|tumuli}}, and statues, as well as the remains of settlements. | Sedentarism and proto-urbanisation allowed for burial practices and the understanding and practice of religion to become more developed. Earlier Kiravian burials were often marked with small stone cairns, but more permanent and sophisticated burial monuments than this would appear only in the latter half of the Kiravian neolithic in the form of standing stones and steles - some of these steles show traces of [[moon runes]] and other examples of {{wp|proto-writing}}. Monumental works would truly come into their own with the emergence of the cross-Kilikas megalithic culture, during which time more sophisticated societies - hypothesised to chiefly be chiefdoms in terms of political development rather than mere tribes or true states - were able to organise the labour- and time-intensive construction of massive stone monuments in service to their increasingly complex economic and religious needs. These centres of megalithic construction appeared in relatively qucik succession in the Baylands and adjacent portions of the South, and pockets further up the eastern and western seaboards, from which their approach to social organisation and construction would spread over successive centuries, leaving behind a widely distributed body of {{wp|menhir}}s, {{wp|dolmen}}s, {{wp|stone circle}}s, {{wp|kistvaen}}s {{wp|passage graves}}, {{wp|tumuli}}, and statues, as well as the remains of settlements. | ||
Megalithic farming societies continued to depend upon potato and other root vegetables, buckwheat, honey, and swine (Nearctic boar) for the agricultural foundation of their diets, engaging also in extensive fishing, hunting, and foraging activities. True cereal crops would not be introduced from Levantia until much later, though Megalithic Kiravians did gather varieties of "wildrye" (''{{wp|Elymus}}'') as a minor contribution to their food supply and used it as feed for boars and ''tinav''. | |||
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The ancestors of the [[Ethnic_groups_in_Kiravia#Demarești|Demarești]] and the Adrates also developed parallel civilisations during this time. | The ancestors of the [[Ethnic_groups_in_Kiravia#Demarești|Demarești]] and the Adrates also developed parallel civilisations during this time. | ||
== Transition to | [[File:Dolmen Russia Kavkaz Jane 1.jpg|thumb|An Adratic dolmen]] | ||
The transition to | A separate megalithic society, the Adratic, emerged around the same time as the proto-Coscivian megalith builders. The old Adratic tongue constituted an independent branch of the Transkiravian family, and there is an abundance of archæological evidence demonstrating that they were proto-Sarostivist devotees of the Divine Moon, like most other Kiravian peoples of this time, including the Megalithic Coscivians. Unlike the Coscivians, however, the Adrates did not observe the Rites and Precepts and had not restructured their ancestor worship around the Emperor. It is known from later Classical Adratic writings that the Adrates believed that they were creations of the Divine Moon and had previously lived on the Moon, and descended directly from the Moon to ''Kam'' (either Earth or specifically Great Kirav). | ||
Demarest did not construct megalithic edifices, preferring instead to employ {{wp|rammed earth}} in their construction efforts, but did achieve a comparable level of social complexity and stratification to the Megalithic Coscivians and the Adrates. | |||
== Transition to Ancient History == | |||
The transition to from prehistory to ancient history is marked by the emergence of the First Dynasties and their consolidation of the first true states, and culminates with the conquest of the Adratic civilisation by Emperor Xoagus I, beginning the First Empire. Methodological and academic justifications for this convention include the nature of predynastic proto-writing and writing: Although writing was known to the Coscivian and Celtic druids during the Megalithic, its use was ritual and monumental, and no long-form written texts suitable for use as historical rather than archæological source material. | |||
== Open Questions == | == Open Questions == | ||