Celsiusi

Celsiusi is a fictional Bronze Age culture created for use in speculative archaeology and in works of fiction and gaming. It is not a real historical culture, but it is described in academic exercises and popular media as a maritime society of island dwellers.

Geography and chronology: According to the constructed narrative, the Celsiusi inhabited a coastal archipelago in a hypothetical Liris Sea, with major settlements on the isles of Veyra, Koro, and Tali. The timeline is placed roughly between 1700 and 1100 BCE, overlapping with real Bronze Age cultures in adjacent regions.

Material culture and technology: The Celsiusi are described as skilled seafarers, employing clinker-built boats, copper-bronze alloywork, and ceramics decorated with spiral and wave motifs. Their dwellings were typically wooden and thatched, arranged along harbors and hillside terraces. Evidence of trade goods in simple harbors is often cited to illustrate networks with neighboring cultures in the imagined region.

Society, language, and religion: The literature depicts a stratified society with a priestly class and merchant networks, as well as kin-based social structures. A hypothetical script attributed to this culture—often called the Celsiusi script—is discussed in some sources, though there is no widely accepted decipherment or consensus on its use.

Scholarly and cultural use: In real-world scholarship, Celsiusi is used as a thought experiment to discuss the interpretation limits of archaeology, demonstrating how material remains can suggest trade, migration, or ritual without definitive proof. In popular culture, the Celsiusi appear in novels and video games as a maritime analogue to Bronze Age trade networks.