Re: JUNGLE PATROL

At 9:53 PM +0200 6/23/02, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
>
>Campfires would be small, locally contained and usually only lit at
certain
>times (at night, mostly). Not really a natural pattern.

Likely they will be under cover or in natural caves if the 
environment is hostile at all. They'll also be likely be in/under 
temporary shelters that the stone age types would construct.

>Right, for a 'normal' planet. There might also be searches for changes
to
>athmosperic chemistry unlikely to belong to natural causes.

Like vulcanism, swamp out gassing, animal flatulence, etc. A 
primitive society will have a hard time making any significant mark 
over a short period of time on a planet's ecosphere.

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