It's sort of possible. Some of the very remote Germanic peoples were reported to be primarily using stone and bone tools at the same time Rome was doing its thing.
Obviously, Africa and the Americas were also not developed. But they're really talking about genuine development within a human society, not parallel to a different one.
There's also the whole "Some rocks melt and can be made into tools" that existed before metallurgy figured out how to mix them into bronze...
And Flinstones was already a complete 1-1 modern world with rock record players and dino-powered can openers, what are they going to with bronze? Fly to the moon?
There's going to be portable shell phones and vac-tube sceamers, aren't there?
Dude, even Age of Empires had to invent a "Tool Age" to bridge that gap of like 40,000 years.
Clubs & Dinosaurs -> Bronze metallurgy in 1 generation.
It's sort of possible. Some of the very remote Germanic peoples were reported to be primarily using stone and bone tools at the same time Rome was doing its thing.
Obviously, Africa and the Americas were also not developed. But they're really talking about genuine development within a human society, not parallel to a different one.
Shit, people in Haiti still live in literal mud huts today, right now.
A quick technological leap is probably going to be the most believable thing about this abortion.
There's also the whole "Some rocks melt and can be made into tools" that existed before metallurgy figured out how to mix them into bronze...
And Flinstones was already a complete 1-1 modern world with rock record players and dino-powered can openers, what are they going to with bronze? Fly to the moon?
There's going to be portable shell phones and vac-tube sceamers, aren't there?
So they replace the rock puns with bronze puns? Dunno how long that'll last.