1. Place the Main board, Animal board, and Idol board in the middle of the table. Leave enough
room below the Main board for three rows of cards.
2. Place the Round marker on the leftmost space of the Round track.
3. Shuffle the Sacred Stone tiles face down and place one at random, face up, on each Sacred
Stone supply pool space on the bottom row. If playing with 4-players, do the same with the top
row of spaces. The total number of tiles used is 8 in a 2-3 player game, and 12 in a 4-player
game. Return any excess to the box.
4. Sort the Tribe cards into 5 Tribe decks, according to their type. Each Tribe deck should have 12
identical Tribe cards. Place them face up below the Main board in their
matching supply spaces.
5. Sort the Culture cards into 2 decks, according to their Era number. Shuffle
each deck separately and place them face down beneath the Tribe cards.
Place the Culture Cap card on top of the Era II Culture deck.
6. Deal the top 8 cards from the Era I Culture deck, face up, to the right of both
Culture decks, in two rows of 4.
7. Each player takes 1 Player board, 2 Resource markers, 2 neutral (gray) Megaliths, 1 Chief card,
and all components in their player color (including their 9 starting cards). Place your Player board
on the table in front of you leaving space around it for the various areas where cards will be
placed during the game. Place the other components as follows:
a. 1 Resource marker on the leftmost space of the Food track.
b. 1 Resource marker on the leftmost space of the Tool track.
c. 5 Camps on the rightmost spaces of the Food track (marked with a Camp icon).
d. 3 Villages on their supply spaces.
e. 2 Neutral Megaliths stacked on the leftmost Megalith supply spaces.
f. 8 Megaliths (of your color), stacked in piles of 2, on the remaining Megalith supply
spaces.
g. 1 Chief figure (with the Chief base attached) and 2 Tribe figures on the right side of the
Player board.
h. 1 Chief card, placed near the Player board, A-side up.
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