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Kinda a thought that pops into my head from time to time about if people that lived well before writing wanted to leave an eternal legacy and at best we see their remains dressed in ornaments.

It's interesting to think that someone that lived 50k years ago paved a path for me in the sense that they probably exploded lands weren't known to their tribe or human at the, found new edible plants, or maybe created a new tool.

Crazy to think that there's billions of humans that I contributed to the life I have know and their names have long since been lost to time and that what I do today can still affect someone well into the future

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[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 6 hours ago

Have a read of how much history is embedded in Australian aboriginal oral stories. Their stories go a long long way back

[-] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 1 hour ago

I think it might be possible to... over-state that.

Im sure that in some regions many of these oral histories are preserved, but in others they've sadly been lost to time. In my region there aren't any youth spending their days learning these histories, and I doubt there have been for the last 5 or 6 decades really.

Even Aboroginal place names are very unreliable.

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