alt Hacker News> The original caretakers of the Australian continent have been telling the same stories orally for 40,000 years.
I know that this is commonly believed, but how could you possibly know?
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bcraven • today at 7:11 PM
I recommend everyone watch the documentary First Footprints[0], it is the most wondrous thing I have ever seen.
The simple answer is that some storied reference events that happened that long ago.[1]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n6VJ5jq7zY
[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/aboriginal-tale-anci...
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I remember they found remnants of a 10k yr old ritual ground that matches the ritual in the oral tradition.
Found it https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01912-w