{"product_id":"thousand-year-old-campfire-or-old-morris-cave","title":"Thousand Year Old Campfire, or Old Morris Cave","description":"\u003cp\u003eI don't know if I know how to explain this, but I must try.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou are buying a game. The game is disguised as a particular sort of regionally produced archaeology journal which I used to see for sale in state parks when I was a youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this solo game you are creating the results of an excavation of a cave mouth which has been a frequently used campsite for a thousand or more years. You do this backwards, building up history from the bedrock up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will roll a die and add dirt, building the cave floor upwards over time. At some points there will be archaeological finds 'uncovered'; you will operate a flowchart to learn about that find and how it came to be there. I am very proud of these flowcharts–some of them are, maybe, the best art I've ever made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA flow chart might look like this:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Figure 13. A flowchart of discovery and death\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indiepressrevolution.com\/xcart\/image.php?id=681\u0026amp;type=D\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou operate the flowchart and then add things to your strata schematic. In this case you would draw in beads and follow the procedure for making a long-dead campfire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA finished strata chart might look like this:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"A stratigraphic cross-section one thousand years deep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indiepressrevolution.com\/xcart\/image.php?id=682\u0026amp;type=D\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"This Machine Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41723084406835,"sku":"THP-FIRE","price":25.02,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/9631\/files\/image_6dbff436-dc47-4141-b6a2-5cd8a46bb1ef.jpg?v=1707983343","url":"https:\/\/www.vaibhavhospital.com\/products\/thousand-year-old-campfire-or-old-morris-cave","provider":"vaibhavhospital","version":"1.0","type":"link"}