I find it utterly fascinating how long were humans capable of passing the information just by word of mouth. If I understood it correctly, in this case people were wary for 2000 years, so for around 100 generations.
A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Archaeological evidence reveals that people abandoned the coast for centuries after the disaster." "The sea has always been vital to life in the Atacama, but it's clear that, for centuries, no one wanted to live too close." But no idea how I came to 2000yrs number
"Life in the Atacama took 2,000 years to return to normal." Just beneath the title.
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#14Re: A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago
#15I find it utterly fascinating how long were humans capable of passing the information just by word of mouth. If I understood it correctly, in this case people were wary for 2000 years, so for around 100 generations.
There are many examples of this sort of thing. In Western societies many of the “universal” myths may be correlated to events 10,000+ years ago, yet persist!
The Black Sea deluge hypothesis for the flood myth was only 7,600 years ago and Lake Agassiz 8,200 year ago.
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#16Same time frame as the biblical flood
North American megafauna disappeared at this time, which is a pretty serious crack in the assertion that overhunting by people caused their extinction.
Storms from this event left evidence of massive flooding in the years following the impact all over the world. I have no doubt that there are cultural myths that stem from not recent flood events but the younger Dryas impact is likely the source for the oldest myths, as the destruction seemed to be so profound that it would have wiped out any coastal settlements all over the world, leaving us with evidence of the survivors and nothing of what they lost. Various sites and clues around the world hint that even 12,000 years ago there may have been relatively advanced cultures that built in stone and wood, planted crops, likely had advanced shipbuilding, math, astronomy, and navigation.
There are petroglyphs at sites all over the world resembling stick figure men that seem to be inspired by massive plasma discharge patterns in the sky, and the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis provides an explanation for storms powerful enough to produce such patterns.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0800560105
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...
Re: A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago
#17I find it utterly fascinating how long were humans capable of passing the information just by word of mouth. If I understood it correctly, in this case people were wary for 2000 years, so for around 100 generations.
There are many examples of this sort of thing. In Western societies many of the “universal” myths may be correlated to events 10,000+ years ago, yet persist!
Re: A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are many examples of this sort of thing. In Western societies many of the “universal” myths may be correlated to events 10,000+ years ago, yet persist!
All kinds. In the Western world there are 2,000 year old myths that persist to this day and are part of mainstream cultural knowledge. People think you’re crazy if you don’t know them.
A lot of the ancient secular stuff was forgotten and had to be reconstructed later from written sources.
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#19Re: A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago
#20I find it utterly fascinating how long were humans capable of passing the information just by word of mouth. If I understood it correctly, in this case people were wary for 2000 years, so for around 100 generations.