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The archaeologists pulled up the cache they had found.
Inside, lay the skeletal remains of a man, estimated to have lived around 2000AD.
The most striking feature, one that revolutionizes our conception of burial practices of the early third millennium, appeared on the bones of the arm.
Weathered over the aeons, yet seemingly untouched by the cataclysmic nuclear collapse, the arm bones of the specimen were a rich blue colour.
After a pass in the resonating eigenspectrograph, the pigment was revealed to be a mixture of ferrocyanidic salts, known archaically as Prussian blue, and more mundanely as the colouring used by the praetors of the Centaurian Conclave for their standards.
Markings on the bones shone light onto the social status of this individual: a repeating cipher in the old Latiniform script reading BLARMS ERIC WEEM. The sheer surface area of the bone covered with this repeating message suggest a figure of great importance. The attention to detail suggests a deity, or cult-like figure. Lending credence to this was the discovery of an acrylic idol, possibly jewelry, depicting a yellow non-humanoid figure which paleosociologists have speculated to be a shamanistic totem.
Furthermore, the bones of an early canid were found in the cache, adorned with a message that simply read LMAOPATTICHAN. Based on earlier burials, this suggests the human was a great chieftain or king of a shamanistic hunting society. Fossilized food remains confirm that the primary sustenance of this remarkable figure was the now extinct bovauroch, ground up into a paste. Our understanding of these creatures is that they were large, and required considerable effort to slaughter and process, showing that this individual wielded immense social power.
Based on the evidence gathered, and cross-referenced with naming customs of the pre-cataclysmic period: we have dubbed this remarkable old man Eric Weem. The meaning of BLARMS and LMAOPATTICHAN is still an active area of research and has led to a renaissance in Terran philology.
Inside, lay the skeletal remains of a man, estimated to have lived around 2000AD.
The most striking feature, one that revolutionizes our conception of burial practices of the early third millennium, appeared on the bones of the arm.
Weathered over the aeons, yet seemingly untouched by the cataclysmic nuclear collapse, the arm bones of the specimen were a rich blue colour.
After a pass in the resonating eigenspectrograph, the pigment was revealed to be a mixture of ferrocyanidic salts, known archaically as Prussian blue, and more mundanely as the colouring used by the praetors of the Centaurian Conclave for their standards.
Markings on the bones shone light onto the social status of this individual: a repeating cipher in the old Latiniform script reading BLARMS ERIC WEEM. The sheer surface area of the bone covered with this repeating message suggest a figure of great importance. The attention to detail suggests a deity, or cult-like figure. Lending credence to this was the discovery of an acrylic idol, possibly jewelry, depicting a yellow non-humanoid figure which paleosociologists have speculated to be a shamanistic totem.
Furthermore, the bones of an early canid were found in the cache, adorned with a message that simply read LMAOPATTICHAN. Based on earlier burials, this suggests the human was a great chieftain or king of a shamanistic hunting society. Fossilized food remains confirm that the primary sustenance of this remarkable figure was the now extinct bovauroch, ground up into a paste. Our understanding of these creatures is that they were large, and required considerable effort to slaughter and process, showing that this individual wielded immense social power.
Based on the evidence gathered, and cross-referenced with naming customs of the pre-cataclysmic period: we have dubbed this remarkable old man Eric Weem. The meaning of BLARMS and LMAOPATTICHAN is still an active area of research and has led to a renaissance in Terran philology.
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