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I wonder if it’s possible that these were documenting something that they were losing, or had lost, as opposed to simply just a document to how they were living

I wonder if it’s possible that these were documenting something that they were losing, or had lost, as opposed to simply just a document to how they were living currently. Like a historical record of sorts. That specific period 18000 years ago, was the middle-end of the quaternary megafauna extinction [1] and the earth was transitioning from plenty of mega fauna to none - leading to the birth of property and modernity. [1] https://kemendo.com/Myth.pdf https://kemendo.com/Myth.pdf

barbazoo 3y ago
Would they have known that something disappeared in the short time span that they observed? Wouldn't it have been more like a frog slowly boiling type of situations? Perhaps they would have made them extinct by hunting them but I think that happened much later. But I'm not sure at all. This is so fascinating. What are folks reading in that field that's not too dry, something like Sapiens?
- AndrewKemendo 3y ago
  Fascinating indeed! David Wengrow and David Graeber published the absolutely phenomenal The Dawn of Everything [0] which is a must read - though they ask the question (that I think I answer in my paper) "how did we 'get stuck' with hierarchical society proliferating from 10,000BC on?" The book Blood Relations[1] by Chris Knight is also fantastic here and I got started with my own research with Lionel Sims a British marxist [2] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything [1]https://blackbooksdotpub.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/blood-relations-chris-knight.pdf https://blackbooksdotpub.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/blood-r... [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muya-MSX7uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muya-MSX7uk
frankfrankfrank 3y ago
I thought something like that myself, i.e., that it could have been legends, or a kind of proto-religion based on stories told by earlier ancestors that would have come from the north, which these people would of course not have known. They only knew that there were stories told “from the homeland” where there were large beasts and plenty.

barbazoo 3y ago

Would they have known that something disappeared in the short time span that they observed? Wouldn't it have been more like a frog slowly boiling type of situations? Perhaps they would have made them extinct by hunting them but I think that happened much later. But I'm not sure at all. This is so fascinating. What are folks reading in that field that's not too dry, something like Sapiens?

AndrewKemendo 3y ago
Fascinating indeed! David Wengrow and David Graeber published the absolutely phenomenal The Dawn of Everything [0] which is a must read - though they ask the question (that I think I answer in my paper) "how did we 'get stuck' with hierarchical society proliferating from 10,000BC on?" The book Blood Relations[1] by Chris Knight is also fantastic here and I got started with my own research with Lionel Sims a British marxist [2] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything [1]https://blackbooksdotpub.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/blood-relations-chris-knight.pdf https://blackbooksdotpub.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/blood-r... [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muya-MSX7uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muya-MSX7uk

frankfrankfrank 3y ago

I thought something like that myself, i.e., that it could have been legends, or a kind of proto-religion based on stories told by earlier ancestors that would have come from the north, which these people would of course not have known. They only knew that there were stories told “from the homeland” where there were large beasts and plenty.