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There is no search function or term that is as nuanced as your brain and reading experience.

I can only hope I can describe the sort of tale I seek.

Timeframe. Anywhere from late stone-age to early agriculture civilization, about 15,000 to 12,000 years ago in Europe as the ice sheets melted and retreated, to early hieroglyphics and uniform writing on clay tablets. Moving on to developing civilizations from China to the Indus valley to Mesopotamia to Egypt, to the sea peoples and ancient Greece. Mediterranean trade via ships.

Rome. And a few hundred years before.

Ending time-frame about 1000 to 800 years ago with the initial spread of religious division in Europe. 1000 to 1200-ish.

Are there any tales within this broad spectrum of possibility that you have read and found "interesting"?

Cheers!

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Quasirandom 🚫

@NC-Retired

Are you looking for only long or short stories as well?

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@Quasirandom

Not 'only' anything. But short tales require an extraordinary teller. So longer form seems easier for character development.

NC-Retired 🚫

@NC-Retired

Here's one example: https://storiesonline.net/s/50903/proeliator

Premium methinks.

Franco 🚫

@NC-Retired

The Source by James Michener. For sale as an ebook at the usual sites.

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@NC-Retired

The Goatherd by FantasyLover

...and I've just noticed that there's a 'farming' tag which might be useful, if you can search by tag

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@madnige

Unfortunately, the farming tag is pretty new and it's pretty rare for authors to retroactively retag stories, so it's unlikely that tag will be on anything that fits the requirements but wasn't posted recently.

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@Dicrostonyx

Unfortunately, the farming tag is pretty new and it's pretty rare for authors to retroactively retag stories, so it's unlikely that tag will be on anything that fits the requirements but wasn't posted recently.

If you think a tag is missing from a story you can ask Lazeez to review it and he will add the tag. This is especially needed for missing sqeek tags.

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@Keet

If you think a tag is missing from a story you can ask Lazeez to review it and he will add the tag. This is especially needed for missing sqeek tags.

Who exactly is going to tempt fate, or acid tongued retribution, by adding or even suggesting the addition of a tag to any story posted by a certain gestalt that used the 'rache' code?

And was notorious for offerings designed to trigger any squick known or imagined.

Dicrostonyx 🚫

@Keet

Cool, I didn't know that.

I was thinking a while back that it might be worth suggesting a corps of taggers, sort of like authorised reviews, who would retag older stories, but the only way to avoid abuse would generate more work in setting it up than the idea is worth.

itsmehonest 🚫

@madnige

FantasyLover has several that would fit

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@NC-Retired

Surviving

A Story in the Scott MacFergus - surviving! Universe

by Scotland-the-Brave is set in 9th century Scotland

samuelmichaels 🚫

@NC-Retired

Hawk, the Stone Age Spirit Guide by Paul Phenomenon, on the early side of your range.
My Second Life (incomplete) by Veritas.
Journey into the Past by Alistair Acorn.

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@samuelmichaels

All good! Thanks!

But all could have had more tales written about those times.

Sad that the authors didn't follow on.

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@NC-Retired

You may also look at this page, although it's somewhat dated:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200215124928/http://do-over.wikifoundry.com/page/Far+Past+Time+Travel

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@samuelmichaels

Thank you. I have this in my bookmarks. I visit when bored or outraged with daily reality and am clicking old story links.

Others that have not visited may find some of the referenced tales enjoyable.

Thank you!

Deng Isnu 🚫
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@NC-Retired

Dead tree (and probably too obvious): Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequels.

("Dead tree" is probably unnecessarily pejorative—my local library has free ebooks, including Jean Auel's oeuvre, available for free. Check the Libby app to see what your library provides.)

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@Deng Isnu

"Dead tree" is probably unnecessarily pejorative

I don't under stand why you consider "dead tree" to be pejorative at all. It's a reference to books originally published on paper media by a "traditional" commercial publisher.

Paper is made from wood pulp (dead trees).

Gauthier 🚫

@NC-Retired

Bruce Bretthauer aka Prince Van Vlox (Premier on SoL) has a series of short stories about an immortal, Kalliste Periakes, from the Sea People available here:
https://storiesonline.net/series/430/kallistes-storytime
It's told modern day and Kalliste reminisce her past iirc starting on the Thera island before the Minoan eruption (1600BC).
There are four novels on Amazon on that premise:
* Kassandra's Song (2011)
* Kalliste Storytime (2013)
* Kalliste: Before Time (2016)
* Kalliste: Desperate Times (2016)
* Kalliste: Restore Balance (2017)
The past memories are not central in all of them...

hammingbyrd7 has the story Backscatter (spoiler: 1107BC).

He also has two short stories in the Aina Time line (Close Encounters, Return Encounters)
with the same premise As Kallista about A'Moth in a Andean civilization (if you want to learn about the quipu writing system) but it's a small part of a larger story.

Other similar forum requests:
https://storiesonline.net/d/s9/t10887/hunter-gatherers
https://storiesonline.net/d/s5/t10600/the-great-leap-forward

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@Gauthier

Kalliste stories are great. I've read them several times and it was a pleasure each time. Kassandra's song is also very good and has a link to Kalliste's stories. Both are available on another website.

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