Pre-Agricultural Period

The Pre-Agricultural Period was a period of Maruleegi history spanning about sixty thousand years. Not much is known about it, primarily due to the fact that writing wasn't invented on Escrib until three thousand years into the Agricultural Period.

From archeological evidence dating as far back as the Turbulent Period, it was thought that the pre-agricultural Maruleegi lived in nomadic hunter-gatherer societies who used and manufactured simple tools to help assist them in their daily lives, as well as to compliment their existing natural tools.

Tool Industries
The stone tools used during the pre-Agricultural period can be separated roughly into three different stages, of increasing complexity and sophistication:
 * Stage A - Stage A tools were made only of stone, formed by being chipped off other stones, and used mainly by now extinct near relatives of the Maruleeg. These flakes formed sharp edges and were usable for cutting and hunting.
 * Stage B - Stage B tools were invented around the middle of the pre-Agricultural period. They were microlithic, being constructed to be smaller and sharper than Stage A tools. These microliths were often used on the tips of projectiles such as spears and javelins.
 * Stage C - Stage C tools were the most sophisticated, invented only towards the very end of the pre-Agricultural period and mostly used in the Agricultural Period. Typically these were composite, with stone heads and handles made of other materials, and multiplied the force available to a single Maruleeg.