Timeline for How quickly could a bronze age society be reborn after regressing due to a mass extinction and ice age?
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| Dec 23, 2023 at 20:42 | comment | added | AlexP | "Would any books or scrolls survive": The Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa is about 3,700 years old. We have much older clay tablets with cuneiform writing, such as this 4,600 years old real estate sale contract. One thousand years is nothing. Anyway, the biggg problem is how fast can the population recover; at a neolithic technological level I would expect tens or even hundreds of thousands of years for the population to increase 100-fold. | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 20:23 | history | edited | Spoon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Changed from how far society would regress to how quickly they'd recover.
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| Dec 23, 2023 at 20:14 | comment | added | Spoon | Brutality is a given, I guess what I was looking for is for how long a society would stay regressed, with the remnants of a fairly advanced bronze age civilisation. Many tools and weapons would be reuseable, even if the specialized knowledge to make or maintain them is lost. Knowledge in books, codices and scrolls may also be lost temporarily, as written knowledge typically wouldn't help a hunter gatherer tribe, thus literacy would be nil or close to it. But as long as they are not burnt they could eventually be rediscovered. I will update the question to clarify this. | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 1:24 | answer | added | Mary | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 1:21 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | Are you asking permission for cannibalism, general brutality? You have it. | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 0:54 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Sounds like they regress to hunter-gatherer levels… | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 0:30 | history | asked | Spoon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
