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TFA is speculative fiction - just enjoy! 100,000 year old stories would predate behavioural modernity, thought to have emerged 80,000 years ago. Maybe eyesigh
by hyperpallium2 6y ago
TFA is speculative fiction - just enjoy!
100,000 year old stories would predate behavioural modernity, thought to have emerged 80,000 years ago.
Maybe eyesight was better 80,000 years ago, so the seven were discernable to the naked eye - combined with zero light and air pollution. OTOH maybe we'll find further evidence to push back behavioural modernity.
- dash2 6y agoPossibly, but the author has gathered quite a bit of evidence for it. Here's his 2017 academic paper on the topic, along with much else: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/6485EEA891C19A2FC6F0C94DBC24DB75/S1323358016000254a.pdf/dawes-review-5-australian-aboriginal-astronomy-and-navigation.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
- andrewflnr 6y agoBased on an academic article by the same author linked down-thread, the 100k year number is derived from when he thinks humans migrated from Africa. If you think that happened closer to 80kya (wiki estimate is around 60kya), I don't think that changes the fundamentals much.