Comment on The Ljungavik Dog: A Mesolithic dog burial
MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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 week ago
Those dudes survived a volcanic eruption that wiped out half of humanity. I guess they still remember it?
nomous@lemmy.world 1 week ago
People are still talking about some flood that probably happened at some point in pre-history.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 week 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
nomous@lemmy.world 1 week 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.