The World of Lothagam

Seven thousand years ago, reaching this place would have red a boat. Lake tecana was 300 feet deeper in its shallow basin, its surface far larger. As the lake retreated, they were forced to move with it to survive. At the same time, driven by the same climatic changes, new migrants were arriving from the north - bringing live stock and transhument pastolism as a way of life. The archaeological record has not yet revealed what happened when the two communities encountered each other. Perhaps the newcomers displaced the original inhabitants, peaceably or with violence. Or maybe they shared knowledge, intermarried and merged.