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S1 • E3 Oct 7, 1978 25m7.03.5
The story focuses on the life of the Cro-Magnons, the first modern humans to settle in Europe. One of the local tribes has developed more advanced technology than their jealous neighbors, so two tribes develop trade relations and start exchanging ideas. Espionage is used to learn the technological secrets of other tribes. The wise man Maestro develops new techniques for painting and sculpture. During a period of food scarcity, two tribes ally with each other to hunt Mammoths. During a victory feast, the two tribes negotiate their union into a single tribe. The new tribe develops initiation rituals for its young hunters, which prominently involve their cave paintings. As the decades pass, adults grow into seniors and their children replace them in leadership positions. The Pest was a reasonably competent and diplomatic tribal leader in his youth, but turns reactionary and vindictive in his old age. No longer relying solely on hunting for their survival, the tribe starts domesticating cattle and dogs. The story notes that the world human population had risen to 10 million people by 10,000 BC.
