Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows
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#4I’m surprised by how tenuous the link is between the cave find and the archival find. Is the bar really that low for claims in archaeological papers or am I missing something? It’s a compelling story, but surely Occam’s razor would conclude that poking sticks into dead animals and fire pits is just what people have done for thousands of years? Where’s the evidence that there was chanting and a healing ceremony?
Edit: full paper is freely available on Nature here:
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#6Very cool :-). I don't know that much about the natives of Australia and their history, I wonder how many of these oral traditions have been written down. An immediate google gave me this document, seems interesting at a glance: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/159354575.pdf
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#7Fascinating.
Growing up in a Hindu household, a lot of our festivals involve listening to origin stories of the customs. A lot of those have of course been glorified to add an element of holiness, but it's possible they are actually derived from some small incident happened in the past.
Like a butterfly effect, a small insignificant event leading to a major celebration for billion people continued over centuries
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That was a cultural ritual, not scientific research. What scientific basis is there for Christmas or Thanksgiving?
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Scientific method alone can be as good as cargo culting stick positioning for 12000 years, once you remove from the equation the underlying philosophy and curiosity that provide interesting hypotheses to test.