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Jaldithas — Concept of 'The Continent' Holocene

Published: 2011-12-27 17:50:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1878; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 125
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Description Concept of around China-sized continent, which splited up from Gondwana in early Mesozoic.
The continent itself carry a familiar,yet outlandish organisms, like rodent-toothed cynodonts, fluffy descendants of dicynodonts or a group of Sauropsids which closest relatives are turtles.
In late pleistocene-Holocene was Continent colonized by humans from both Americas as well as Oceania.
The earliest humans here came here from Oceania sometimes around 22,000 - 15,000 BCE, it might be interesting to note that this humans, forgotten relatives of Australian Aborigines must have first settled some small island, from which they later continued their journey towards west, because the earliest humans of Continent had smaller stature ( average adult height of this early inhabitants of Continent is 115 cm) ( and thus its possible that they are descendant of Palau-like dwarves ). Another wave of migration occured between 2500 - 0 BCE -, when Lapita culture and later Polynesians reached Continend. Third migration starts around 500 CE thanks to an advanced ships and continues up to 21th century.



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I am not sure about including the relatives of aborigines,it might be too much exaggerated..I just included them because I would enjoy developing their culture. BTW the Lapita migration is not that big, as the Australoids would be already very well settled and relative numerous, their significance would be mainly bringing here new technologies, crops, domesticated animals.
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Comments: 29

ReaverPan [2020-02-27 21:41:34 +0000 UTC]

I love this idea

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devientartfannumba1 [2019-05-11 14:52:28 +0000 UTC]

OOf, "Australoid", please keep in mind that such racial classifications are outdated and pseudoscientific, races don't actually exist. Only clines. 

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NazjaRaj [2012-05-29 04:18:50 +0000 UTC]

were they using civilization?

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Jaldithas In reply to NazjaRaj [2012-05-29 10:46:44 +0000 UTC]

I guess by the time europeans would land here bronze would be part of everyday life and iron metalurgy would just start becoming more common

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Jaldithas In reply to NazjaRaj [2012-05-29 10:45:34 +0000 UTC]

the concept was that australoids domesticated certain species of crop and thus had a sedentary society (though there still remained many hunter-gatherer groups) later polynesians brought new domecticated organisms, technology and ideas, and basicaly created various small chiefdooms with polynesians as elites and "middle class" and australoids as serfs. I wasn't thinking about later development, except that it will be later colony of one/some european countries and later get indipendence

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NazjaRaj In reply to Jaldithas [2012-05-30 09:34:49 +0000 UTC]

i mean cities, some advanced civilization like today in the 21st century?

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Jaldithas In reply to NazjaRaj [2012-05-30 13:12:28 +0000 UTC]

later, it might look at today indonesia or other south-east asian countries... with mixture of old and new

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NazjaRaj In reply to Jaldithas [2012-05-30 13:34:45 +0000 UTC]

yay! go ancient philippine civilization!

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Jaldithas In reply to NazjaRaj [2012-05-30 15:22:41 +0000 UTC]

its predominanty australoid and polynesian

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NazjaRaj In reply to Jaldithas [2012-05-31 12:19:12 +0000 UTC]

so... there are only "maoris" and Hawaiians?

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Jaldithas In reply to NazjaRaj [2012-05-31 13:04:12 +0000 UTC]

nope.. most widespread and common is some kind of australoid people, then descendants of both lapitas and polynesians (technicaly lapitas might be ancestors of polynesians anyway) and then the rest (native americans, descendants of european imigrants, africans, indians etc.)

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PeteriDish [2012-02-27 06:38:29 +0000 UTC]

Somehow, I would have liked it a bit more, or I'd have thought it'd be more convenient, if your "extra landmass" was a part of some other continent that ripped off. Now granted, I'm saying that because I was looking at this map for tens and tens of seconds and couldn't figure out "where is the difference" I know it's a bit dumb to not see this big patch of color in the middle of the Pacific, but I guess I was looking in wrong direction...

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Jaldithas In reply to PeteriDish [2012-03-09 16:25:27 +0000 UTC]

I really want to upload something about human cultures or Pleisto-holocene fauna.. but I really hate my mind, i wants to force me to expand that-alien-sea-picture into a SE project

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PeteriDish In reply to Jaldithas [2012-03-09 16:31:14 +0000 UTC]

Why not! It sounds like an awesome idea to me!

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Jaldithas In reply to PeteriDish [2012-03-09 16:23:16 +0000 UTC]

yey

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bensen-daniel [2012-01-23 07:25:48 +0000 UTC]

Hey, cool idea! [link]

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Jaldithas In reply to bensen-daniel [2012-01-25 22:08:30 +0000 UTC]

thanks right now, I am working rather on Holocene fauna ( like quite smart viviparous pterosaurs ( all Cenozoic pterosaurs here are ovoviviparous or viviparous) with dexterous fingers - analogues to large parrots, as well as nightmare of the crabs and oysters ) than human cultures

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bensen-daniel In reply to Jaldithas [2012-01-26 05:13:10 +0000 UTC]

If it can fly, how do you explain the fact that we don't have them in the rest of the world?

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Jaldithas In reply to bensen-daniel [2012-01-26 07:34:50 +0000 UTC]

In this reality, various species spreaded outside the continent during cenozoic, mainly stork-like ones, but highest diversity exist on The Continent

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bensen-daniel In reply to Jaldithas [2012-01-26 08:53:50 +0000 UTC]

Oh, okay, so this is a real alternate universe scenario, not a hidden history. Interesting.

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Jaldithas In reply to bensen-daniel [2012-01-26 13:07:55 +0000 UTC]

well, I am trying to "keep butterflies in chains" so the rest of the world would be quite same, just with some species of birds missing.. same for human history

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bensen-daniel In reply to Jaldithas [2012-01-26 18:58:22 +0000 UTC]

good idea

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godofwarlover [2011-12-28 04:03:02 +0000 UTC]

Meant to say reminds me of Mu. Sorry, Typo

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Jaldithas In reply to godofwarlover [2012-01-22 23:04:18 +0000 UTC]

well, I suppose any fictional continent placed in Pacific ocean would resemble Mu in some way, or another

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godofwarlover In reply to Jaldithas [2012-01-23 01:40:46 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it does

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godofwarlover [2011-12-28 04:02:38 +0000 UTC]

Remo9nds me of Mu

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bhut [2011-12-27 22:42:28 +0000 UTC]

Neat map! I like it!

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Jaldithas In reply to bhut [2011-12-27 23:05:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks !I used the world map as a template,I just added "The Continent" ( I have to make up some name I have Idea of using something derivated from some Polynesian language,something like Maori "permanent home" - Taiwhenua..or "Ungawhena" (I mixed maori words for "place of arrival" - "Unga" + land - "Whenua" into single word)or Mangawhenua ( mountain - "Maunga" + land - "Whenua") but perhaps something based on some Aboriginal languages might be better,as the Australoids would be here for at least 10 000 years,while Polynesians (and their Lapita ancestors) for around 3000 years at max

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electreel [2011-12-27 19:47:06 +0000 UTC]

It looks great! Some more texturing on the island would be nice.

*I apologize for the 4 hour delay at Skype...

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