Could there be anything left from the culture of the Kumumgah on Tatooine?

[Unimatrix Q]

25ky+

Yep, that's another reason why i wonder if there could still be remains of some of their cities under the dunes in some possibly unharmed regions.

Considering that the foundations of some of Coruscant earliest building apparently still stand in the lowest levels of that planet and according to Legends it became a ecumenopolis approximately 90.000 years before the battle of Yavin.

 

[O'Dib]

I think what little evidence of Kumumgah culture can be found is more likely offworld

 

[Reverend]

An earlier version of TPM's podrace sequence featured a segment before the final stretch that passed through the ruins of an old town. Whether that was intended to be an old settler ghost town or something prehistoric is unclear.

 

[Kor]

I vaguely recall the original novelization of the first movie saying something about anthropologists or somebody speculating that the Tuskens and the Jawas descended from a common ancestor, but the Tuskens scoffed at the idea. Or something like that.

Kor

 

[Unimatrix Q]

An earlier version of TPM's podrace sequence featured a segment before the final stretch that passed through the ruins of an old town. Whether that was intended to be an old settler ghost town or something prehistoric is unclear.

Interesting. I didn't knew about that. Are there artworks of these ruins?

 

[Reverend]

Interesting. I didn't knew about that. Are there artworks of these ruins?

Not that I'm aware of. It's just marked on the map of the circuit featured in the "art of" book, presumably when the sequence was in the early planning stage. The version of the map that's in the 'Incredible Locations' book (and indeed the map display seen on screen on Shimi's viewer) seems to be based directly on this, though some of the features differ, including the "Old Town" in the middle of the Hutt Flats.

IIRC one of the books from around the time (either the TPM Visual Dictionary, or the Locations book again) mention that some of the features geological features being the result of ancient water erosion; dried lake beds, old tributaries feeding into the dune sea etc. Plus I think there's a bit somewhere that says some of the rocks in the mushroom mesa section of the track bare evidence of ancient carvings, though that may just been a nod to some easter eggs the VFX crew may have snuck into the background.