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Others seem to think your claim for evidence is unreasonable, but I think it's a perfectly reasonable to ask.

One thing I've seen is that Indigenous Australian oral history is thought to extend back at least 37,000 years[1]. Natural events that have been demonstrated to have happened tens of thousands of years ago have been passed down in the oral history of some civilizations. This knowledge conversely seems to be lost with a transfer to written records, probably due to a lack of people keeping mental note of ancient knowledge. e.g., a lot of Native American history is just lost for countless reasons, despite them having written records now.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/aboriginal-tale-anci...



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