Base Register

The Base Register is a selection of in-world articles detailing what exists on Earth from the point the project is going to work from - a comprehensive guide to 'the year dot'. Here you will find a description of world history (such as it is) up till 'the year dot', along with a list of detailed articles indicating the state of development at this point. Please do not elaborate on Base Register articles without first discussing the elaboration -unless, of course, you are correcting spelling or grammar, or are constructing links to relevant articles.

'The Year Dot'
You may appreciate that there are some difficulties in defining a suitable date for The Progressive Earth to work from. Obviously we must avoid selecting a period which contains clearly identifiable civilisations from our time-line, so that people can be truely creative and build their own civilisations from scratch. But we need to provide an Earth which has all 'the basics' in place, including some basic physical tools and ideas like language and religion, so contributors dont end up having to explain what a human is before they create a character. Also, for simpliciy's sake, we will be working solely with Homo Sapiens, so a period where all other human races are either eliminated or well into recession is necessary. For now 'the year dot' has been set at about 12,000 BC, in the later stages of the Upper Paleolithic, or what some would call the early or even middle Mesolithic, with the next major change in history to be the advent of agriculture - if that ends up happening, of course.

The Base Register
Here is a list of all current Base Register articles. Please be aware that it is likely further articles exist on many topics covered here, so check around before writing an article that expands on a Base Register article, or developing a covered topic.

Contiune on to the Second Base Register
 * Humanity
 * Music
 * Language
 * Wooden Tools
 * Bone Tools
 * Stone Tools
 * Control of Fire
 * Constructed Shelters
 * Clothing
 * Ochre &amp; Pigments
 * Spears
 * Concept of Afterlife
 * Blades
 * Canoe
 * Darts
 * Atlatl
 * Archery
 * Mining
 * Tally Stick
 * Needles
 * Ceramics &amp; Sculpting
 * Rope
 * Woven Baskets
 * Dogs
 * Fishing
 * Hunting
 * Religion &amp; Mythology
 * Stepping Stones to Art
 * Early Jewellery