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Counterintuitively, oral histories (and traditions) have been and may be a better long term store of information than written documents but someone in the futur
by stevenwoo 4y ago
Counterintuitively, oral histories (and traditions) have been and may be a better long term store of information than written documents but someone in the future is going to find out for sure! There's the 10000 year Australian aboriginal tales about sea level rise that matched geological data and was on the front page a few years ago.
- lotsofspots 4y agoThe oral traditions of the Klamath people describe the eruption that turned Mount Mazama into Crater Lake 8000 years ago, too.
- Bakary 4y agoThe information obtained is so fragmented and imprecise that it's not really that useful beyond testifying to the the length of aboriginal history.