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    • The origin of the designation 'baba' for such stele is debated. Indeed it is related to the word for lady or old woman in Slavic languages, but it is also related to the Turkic word 'balbal' meaning ancestor. Turks called those statue 'balbal' : https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balbal and in Kazakh the word 'baba' means ancestor.  The most probable is that Slavic people heard the word balbal from Turkic people, notably the Cumans. And since the Cumans mostly depicted women on their statues, an association has been made between the two.  And finally the Russians called ALL those ancient statues 'baba' : https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Каменная_баба This is why I couldn't tell if you were talking about the Scythian or the Cuman stele. 
    • (I deleted what you are quoting before you commented.) I added these two babas because of a misunderstanding and I'm not insisting on keeping them. I asked to add a stone baba here and I interpreted your answer here as an approval, I guess because I thought stone baba are just the female sitting ones, not the male standing ones (I guess because "baba" in slavic languages refers to a female person). So no reason for hard feelings. So if you think they are ahistorical and others agree to get them out, no problem.
    • I don't know much about the .CEM format. From my little understanding though, a tool exists that will allow you to export to .CEM from Blender. In Pyrogenesis, the engine behind 0 A.D. meshes only support one material at a time. So for that reason and for modularity meshes are split into lots of pieces. For static meshes I wrote an importer from the game to Blender assuming you use the development version of the game. For animated meshes, I would not recommend using the blender importer, so it's better to use the blend files, provided they exist in the art repository    
    • If you can't take criticism, don't participate in a community project. Besides the two Cuman statues, yes I think the others are not anachronistic. 
    • True. I was afraid it wouldn't look "wonderly" enough Maybe in this case elevate the gravel base a bit?
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