History of Fengjiang

Prehistory
Prehistory in Fengjiang corresponds to any year before the introduction of in the Serican continent, conventionally dated to around the 3rd millennium BCE. For the purposes of hominid and later human history, the prehistoric period encompasses the period from roughly a million years before the present (BP) and the development of  sedentary cultures from around the 6th millennium BP onwards, until the birth of  civilizations through the development of bronze material cultures and writing.

Hominid fossils dated back to sometime between 1.3 and 1.8 million years BP have been unearthed within the modern boundaries of continental Fengjiang. The earliest fossilized human remains on the continent were found in notable Paleolithic sites in the Longshan Mountains, being the Longshan Men (龍山人) - representing 30 fossilized individuals belonging to the human subspecies . Fossils of animals found alongside similar dated hominid fossils include short-necked s, and s from Rhodin as well as  and s from northern Hatar. Simple stone tools such as the, , and  have been discovered amongst these remains, alongside evidence for the use of fire and cooking. It is believed that  arrived in Serica around 200,000 and 100,000 BP from Rhodin, in accordance with the for the origins of  throughout Tellurus. The dominant theory posits that the Serican migration occurred as prehistoric humans in Avarda travelled into southern Serica, then spread northwards to populate the rest of the continent. The earliest modern human remains are dated to around 70,000 BP in the Ksach Peninsula tucked away in the arid Honoe River basin, in what is now South Fengjiang. These are the Honoe mummies, believed to be the oldest artificially humans in the world. These mummies were elaborately prepared by an, who would remove all skin and organs from the body, to be replaced with clay and vegetable stuffing. The mummy is then baked in a, hardening the clay and allowing it to survive like similarly prepared earthenware until their discovery in the modern day. Fengese scholars describe the Honoe mummies to be the earliest evidence for the appearance of in Serican culture, a practice theorized to have been widespread across prehistoric Serica.

Prehistoric cultures
culture in Serica is believed to have started around 10,000 BCE, promulgated by the adoption of agriculture and sedentary lifestyles by prehistoric human communities in the region. Neolithic communities of the time subsisted off and, archaeological evidence suggesting an intensive practice of  as forested land was cleared using fire then settled temporarily, until the fertility of the local land was depleted and communities migrated elsewhere to allow the land to recover - the foundation of a semi-nomadic agricultural community. A primitive form of was practiced alongside these agricultural practices, as domesticated animals such as, , and  were raised for meat and produce, these animals moving alongside human communities as the latter migrated and settled around Serica. The Xilongshan Culture is the best attested Neolithic community to date, the archaeological record indicating their distinct use of and  in the construction of what have been credited to be the earliest specimens of tallholds in Serican history.

A cohesive Proto-Serican culture is believed to have formed around 3,000 BCE, the beginning of what is scholarly recognized to be the in Serica. Preceding the development of writing on the continent, unearthed evidence around this time point towards a common tradition surrounding pyrolatry, the ritual worship of fire, in Neolithic cultures around Southern and Central Fengjiang. =Preceding Communion=

Yanshizu and the ascendancy of Infernalism
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