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Thank you for the link! Not sure I would subscribe to the advanced society, so far all the artifacts we have can be explained by above-the -average achievement

Thank you for the link! Not sure I would subscribe to the advanced society, so far all the artifacts we have can be explained by above-the -average achievements of an individual (rather than a group or a society, like, for example, a microprocessor). And the fact that the mankind has a pronounced tendency to punish extraordinary achievement.

fit2rule 7y ago
Australian aborigines had: * A form of cryptographic key exchange which maintained peace among the tribes for 10's of thousands of years * A formulated "do no harm" policy for its healing practitioners that was an analog of the Hyppocratic oath, long before Europeans had the concept. They also understood the healing nature of antiseptics, and had a knowledge of infection more advanced than European medicine at the time (1700's) of first contact. (We had miasma theory: the aborigines understood that there was a smaller world that would infect a person if they didn't bathe/take care of the wounds..) * They have the oldest surviving oral traditions in the world. We in the west cannot keep our memes alive for longer than a few months - the Australians managed to tell the same stories among themselves for 40,000+ years. * The Australian biosphere as it stood on first contact was a result of centuries of management by the aborigines. They were maintaining the land peacefully, and harmonically, for millennia. * The oldest mason (Stoneworking) projects in the world are found in Gabarnmung. There is evidence that this technology was exported from there to other parts of the neolithic world. I think they were actually a lot more advanced than we give them credit. Its easy for notions of European supremacy to blind one to this, however ..
- CogDisco 7y ago
  Do you have a reference for that first point? I couldn't find it on Google, but would be interested to learn about it.
  - java-man 7y ago
    I think it might be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_stick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_stick https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-australia-oceania/aboriginal-message-sticks-and-ancient-system-communication-001670 https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-australia-oce...

fit2rule 7y ago

Australian aborigines had: * A form of cryptographic key exchange which maintained peace among the tribes for 10's of thousands of years * A formulated "do no harm" policy for its healing practitioners that was an analog of the Hyppocratic oath, long before Europeans had the concept. They also understood the healing nature of antiseptics, and had a knowledge of infection more advanced than European medicine at the time (1700's) of first contact. (We had miasma theory: the aborigines understood that there was a smaller world that would infect a person if they didn't bathe/take care of the wounds..) * They have the oldest surviving oral traditions in the world. We in the west cannot keep our memes alive for longer than a few months - the Australians managed to tell the same stories among themselves for 40,000+ years. * The Australian biosphere as it stood on first contact was a result of centuries of management by the aborigines. They were maintaining the land peacefully, and harmonically, for millennia. * The oldest mason (Stoneworking) projects in the world are found in Gabarnmung. There is evidence that this technology was exported from there to other parts of the neolithic world. I think they were actually a lot more advanced than we give them credit. Its easy for notions of European supremacy to blind one to this, however ..

CogDisco 7y ago
Do you have a reference for that first point? I couldn't find it on Google, but would be interested to learn about it.
- java-man 7y ago
  I think it might be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_stick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_stick https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-australia-oceania/aboriginal-message-sticks-and-ancient-system-communication-001670 https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-australia-oce...