Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #152 - Hunter-Gatherers
Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀
Image generated by AI in Wombo.art
The prompt this week is - Hunter-Gatherers
Tell me a story of hunter-gatherers from your fantasy or sci-fi setting !
The popular image of hunter-gatherers is of primitive tribesmen or proto-humans who haven't evolved to the point of farming and building cities. But that's completely wrong ! Studies of groups like the San people show that they have an egalitarian culture with deep and sophisticated oral knowledge and traditions and a close connection to their environment. They also tend to spend far less time working and more time sitting around the fire socialising than we "civilised" people, as well as having longer lifespans than early city dwellers, and better teeth.
But hunter-gatherers don't have to be nomads. Your ones could be a starfaring species hunting through the debris of an old warzone for the parts to keep their ships running, or a culture which was city-dwelling and made the decision to transcend the stresses of urban live and revert to a closer connection with nature. Or perhaps they are survivors of a terrible war, adopting a nomadic lif3estyle after all the knew was destroyed.
What do your hunter-gatherers hunt, and what do they gather ? Who fills what roles ? What kind of society and traditions have they developed ? What technology do they have that is easily portable and can be made with the knowledge and resources they have ? What challenges do they face ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
- AI images to illustrate your posts are fine, as long as they are credited to whichever software you used to make them
- Posts using AI to create the text are not acceptable; these prompts (and community) are a way to expand and have fun with human imagination, and I firmly believe AI will never be able to replicate the human spark.
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It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.
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