I assume the big one not the little one. It would be anticlimactic for it to be “you know it got quite a bit colder for a little while before you all showed up”
Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 1 month agoThe local Aboriginals to me have oral stories about the most recent ice age.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 1 month ago
I have been told they described the formation of glaciers, so definitely the big one.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If I had money I’d spend all my time learning from these people
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 1 month ago
Collision Course, or the spinoff, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild?
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Yeah, some of the stuff that has been able to be confirmed via geological studies is just insane. It’s crazy to me how they aren’t more widely known for disrupting the idea of prehistory.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Blame the people who don’t look like them but run the country. Anglo fragility won’t give brown people have a chance.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wouldn’t say the idea of prehistory is disrupted per se. But we have to accept that it’s region-dependent. In any given region (recorded) history started when the oldest still available account was preserved.
Some regions are far better at preserving very old accounts than others.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 1 month ago
That’s not how we classically define prehistory though. Technically pre-history is defined as the period of time beginning when the first humans started using stone tools and ending when different cultures developed writing systems.
My criticism is that western scholars put too much importance on the written word.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s my point: The classical definition makes the assumption that written records are the only records with any kind of reliability, which doesn’t hold everywhere.