Paleolithic - Nocturnus AD

Over two million years ago

The emergence of primitive man

The first human development

Of the old Stone Age

The Pleistocene epoch, bringing glacial onset

Initiating climactic cycle, the Gelasian stage

Rapid changes occurring, ice sheets melting

Causing rising sea levels

Altered environment, worldwide change

Paleolithic era, Quarternary Period, land masses forming

Earth evolving, ice age ending, changes occurring

New plants growing, life reappearing, emergence of man

Cultural stage, human development, using stone-made tools

Grouping together in small societies, ensuring their survival

Using stones, making weapons, hunting wild animals

Gathering food, creating housing for their shelter

Discovering fire, cooking food, defending off predators

Raw material, core prepared, centripetal reduction

Removing flakes made of stone, achieving desired results

New techniques, great advancement for early man

Building rafts, the need to travel across the water

Moving farther, discovering lands, migrating across the globe

Creating weapons for survival based on hierarchy

Animal carvings, cave paintings

Forms of magic, ensuring a successful hunt

Shamanistic practices, symbolic patterns

Depictions of half-human half-animal beings

Tribal society, animal cults, sacrificial hunting ceremonies

Altered states of consciousness through group ritual

Religious practice, honoring the dead, first human burial

Excarnation, ritual defleshing, preparing for the afterlife

Afterlife, afterlife