Comment on The Ljungavik Dog: A Mesolithic dog burial
MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoStories 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
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Those dudes survived a volcanic eruption that wiped out half of humanity. I guess they still remember it?
nomous@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People are still talking about some flood that probably happened at some point in pre-history.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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.
nomous@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel like the myth existing in cultures around the world from Mesopotamia to the Americas gives its more credence. It makes sense that a world-changing event would work its way into various disparate cultures.