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5500 - 2200 B. C. Neolithicum
The Neolithic people can move about safely within their settlement.
Having settled, they no longer live as nomads (an important step for mankind).
They care for their life-stock, and process animal products and crops.
This is a pre-monetary era. Instead, people are trading goods.
The Hill serves as a place for shelter, and a cult place for religious ceremonies.
When being threatened, i.e. by another tribe or clan, people are fleeing to the nearby hill,
and take shelter in a sort of refuge fort, which is their ritual place at the same time.
Secret small trails throughout the forest hide the refugees, and serve as additional shelter.
Neolithic people have knowledge of nature and the seasons.
In the palisades surrounding the ritual place you can see two exits directing East and West.
People watch the courses of sun, moon, and stars.
In the valley, people are living with their life-stock
in so-called naves, sheltered by wooden palisade trenches.
Already, they have a sort of agriculture.
People are no longer mere hunters and gatherers.
Some are fishermen, some gather berries and edible roots.
To 98%, the community is self-sufficient.
A dugout canoe is being built from a single log.
Children are carrying firewood.
The contact to the outside world results from trading transactions.
Surplus goods, meaning goods not needed for self-sufficiency, are being traded.
Metals or jewellery beads are being bartered for furs,
whereby, "street"-traders are no outcasts.
There are larger trading routes all across Europe, already.
A stone cist grave yard next to the settlement bears witness of a burial culture.
The landscape blends into the river without artificial barriers.
The river is being utilized to catch food,
for fresh water supply, and for washing.
A community member is being banned from the village,
and sent across the furt of the river into the *** forest.
He has offended against group interests. Therefore, he's being outcast,
rendering him to the mercy of his own
fate without any shelter and protection.
In this era, the community was of vital importance -
with a high probability, he's being sent into certain death.
The *** forest is a jungle.
It is considered to be hostile and impervious.
It means danger from wild beasts, i.e. bears, or even the swamp.
The forest is a natural threshold.