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The Ljungavik Dog: A Mesolithic dog burial (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Aboriginal oral histories date back at least another 2000 years before this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Well now I'm curious as to how they date oral histories

[–] MartianSands 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stories about events we can identify in the archeological record, probably. Forest fires, major battles, geological events, things like that which can be used to line the stories up with specific real-world events

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those dudes survived a volcanic eruption that wiped out half of humanity. I guess they still remember it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People are still talking about some flood that probably happened at some point in pre-history.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I strongly believe that it happened. It doesn't need to be a "flood of biblical dimensions" but just one terrible enough to convince a few early tribes that it was the end of the world as we know it.

That's mankind lore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

what makes most sense to me, at least to explain stories in europe, is simply when doggerland got covered by the ocean. That's a fucking big landmass that would have been prime real estate, no shit it being lost to water would be something people make stories about. And back then people didn't live their entire lives in one village, they migrated all the time and people would hop between tribes and shit, lots of people would have personally seen that it was now underwater and spread that knowledge around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like the myth existing in cultures around the world from Mesopotamia to the Americas gives it credence. It makes sense that a "world-changing event" would work its way into various disparate cultures myths.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Or it's because people all around the world always lived next to water and encountered floods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Absolutely, water being such a vital part of life pretty much ensures it'll be referenced. Kind of the same thing as various sun gods in cultures around the world.

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