Another name for Tarshish?

As mentioned in the timeline in the GM's Companion, there was a 10,000 BC Mediterranean civilization named Tarshish. (A full writeup by Ian Young is archived here.) As was pointed out to me in a discussion, the name Tarshish here is anachronistic. In real life documents, Tarshish was a port that traded with the Israelites, not any kind of ancient civilization.

So if the name doesn't make sense, then what could replace it? Atlantis? While Plato's 9000 year estimate does place it in the same general range, the name Atlantis is Greek and Greek wouldn't have existed at that time.

I did some research, and ultimately there really aren't many suitable names that I could find. The best candidate I could find is "Kheheb", a name for a prehistoric Egyptian civilization in the roleplaying game Fireborn. It's a fictitious neologism, so I think it could fit okay. The language spoken by them would probably be completely speculative anyway, since this civilization collapsed 12,000 years ago and the oldest extant writing dates back 6,000 years ago. 

So I guess I'll use Kheheb from now on. Although that does leave the question of what to call the 100,000 years old prehuman Atlantic civilization...

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