Question for you: humans in the (far away) past!

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B yoBlu - 19 Jun 2004 16:17 GMT

Hallo all.
First of all, I apologize for my bad english, I'll try to explain myself
in the best way.

My question is:

Suppose you have to choose a period of time in whitch to settle down
and try to live.
Suppose this period HAS TO BE before 65 millions year ago.

What period is best?

You should consider various aspects: composition of atmosphere,
availability of food,
dangerous predators..
Of course may be some variable is less important than others.

Consider I'm not an expert at all of whatever "paleo" science, so please
be very easy.

best regards,
Claudio

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deowll - 21 Jun 2004 04:38 GMT

> Hallo all.
> First of all, I apologize for my bad english, I'll try to explain myself
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> You should consider various aspects: composition of atmosphere,
> availability of food,

The age of the dinosaurs is full of dangerous preditors. You also have the
absence of most kinds of plants people normally eat. No grass of any kind
means no grain or sugar cane. You do have flowering plants near the end and
some of them might be possible to domesticate or use as food such as the
ginko but untreated their seeds which is what are processed and eaten will
kill you untreated.

If you are writing fiction you might want to take some crops with you. Think
seeds. You might pick the time right after the permian extinction because
you might have fewer nasty meat eaters of the size of a house kind. You
would still want to be able to make things like cross bows or guns along
with pikes if you didn't have rapid fire guns. Some of the small flesh
eaters of the time might be hunting in packs so you would want friends to
watch your back.

> dangerous predators..
> Of course may be some variable is less important than others.
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> best regards,
> Claudio

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ByoBlu - 23 Jun 2004 23:11 GMT

> The age of the dinosaurs is full of dangerous preditors. You also have the
> absence of most kinds of plants people normally eat. No grass of any kind
> means no grain or sugar cane. You do have flowering plants near the end and
> some of them might be possible to domesticate or use as food such as the
> ginko but untreated their seeds which is what are processed and eaten will
> kill you untreated.

This is very helpful to me.
Can you suggest me any website to have an idea of what vegetables where
like?

> If you are writing fiction

yes I am.. :-)

> you might want to take some crops with you. Think
> seeds. You might pick the time right after the permian extinction because
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> eaters of the time might be hunting in packs so you would want friends to
> watch your back.

Those are exactly the kind of considerations I'm looking for.
Thanks.
If you have more, please don't hesitate to write them down, to my personal
address too!
byoblu[@]byoblu.com (substitute [@] with the @)

Thanks again,
Claudio

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deowll - 24 Jun 2004 06:48 GMT

> > The age of the dinosaurs is full of dangerous preditors. You also have the
> > absence of most kinds of plants people normally eat. No grass of any kind
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> Thanks again,
> Claudio

What you may want to do is look up the permian extinction on line and at
your library. You might get some books from Amazon.com as well.

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ByoBlu - 24 Jun 2004 16:15 GMT

> What you may want to do is look up the permian extinction on line and at
> your library. You might get some books from Amazon.com as well.

Thank's mate!

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Question for you: humans in the (far away) past!