Neolithic Collapse

Long, long ago, there was a civilization
Which spanned from the edge of Europe, into Asia
And even in the Americas and Egypt.
It used its red paints, and made art upon the walls
Of caves, and on their obloid potery. Human
Figures, and strange things, were drawn with these strange, red paints.
They ornamented their homes with white, creature's skulls 
And fat, jolly Venuses, in subdivisions
Walled off to avoid that ancient Behemoth's foot.
His tail was like the cedar, and fire flung from
His mouth, until a catastrophic event in
The Mid Twenty Fourth Century wiped it all out.