At the million-years-ago mark, Humans exist only as hunter-gatherer tribes. There are actually six species of viable sentient hominids:
q Humans proper, mostly contained in Africa.
q Neanderthals, also known as Orcs by the Atlantean age;
q Homo Heidelbergensis (typical if not broadly representative) which was already widespread through Eurasia, and would become the Goblin and hobgoblin race by the Atlantean era.
q Homo Erectus of east Asia who would become the Muans
q Homo Florensis – or Hobbits, but which are actually the “Puntian dwarves” in Atlantean terms,
q Yeti or Sasquatch, who would inhabit the upper elevations across the northern hemisphere
By present day, humans would be the only variant remaining in recognizable form and in viable numbers.
Before we get to their story, though, we must first learn about some refugees from impossibly far away, and the grim fates of some of our earliest rivals.