Living Worlds
A family around a fire at the mouth of a forested limestone cave at dusk, a red painting of a pig and hand stencils on the rock above.

Age · 51,200–20,000 years ago

The deep past

The first stories, the long winters.

Observed

Evidence

Places, dates and measured rates, from sources.

Inferred

Parameters

The rates and structures fitted to that evidence.

Simulated

Behaviour

Lives stepped month by month under those rates.

Generated

Outcome

Each life's story, told as a composite, never a real person.

Meanwhile

2 worlds, side by side.

Each keeps its own time. None is ranked above another.

A family around a fire at the mouth of a forested limestone cave at dusk, a red painting of a pig and hand stencils on the rock above. Sulawesi, at least 51,200 years agoFirst StoryEvery night, someone tells a story. People in sewn furs walking home across a snow-dusted steppe at sunset towards a camp fire, mammoths far off on the plain. Beringia, about 20,000 years agoThe Long WinterNobody winters alone.
A double-hulled voyaging canoe with pandanus sails on the open Pacific at dusk.

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