What happened before anyone was writing it down?

Ways through

Two routes, each starting somewhere different. Nothing here is a prerequisite for anything else, and every question stands on its own. A stop opened from a route carries it: the foot of the question offers the next one.

1. Before anyone wrote anything down

   The human past before writing, from a time when there were several kinds of human to the first farmers and the monuments built by people who did not yet farm.

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   1. 01Who were we before anyone wrote it down?
   2. 02How long have we been talking?
   3. 03When did we start wearing clothes?
   4. 04When did people reach the Americas?
   5. 05What killed the large animals?
   6. 06Why did farming start?
   7. 07What did we build before we had cities?

2. Things that ended

   Palaces that fell, cities that emptied, an island whose decline came from outside, and what any of it leaves behind.

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   1. 01Why did the Bronze Age collapse?
   2. 02Why did the Indus cities empty?
   3. 03What happened on Rapa Nui?
   4. 04Can a lost script be read?
   5. 05How much of human history has been lost?
   6. 06What will be left of us?