Evidence the oral stories of Australia's First Nations might be 10,000 years old: In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he recounted his ancestors' stories. Among them was a story telling of a time when the North Wellesley Islands were connected to the Australian mainland. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evidence-oral-stories-australia-nations.html
"I think it's absolutely awesome that people are still telling a story today has been passed down for 99% of that time by word of mouth, rather than being written down. It's a living story."
@freecandy Looks like a limitation in the app. I just checked across lemmy, behaw, and mastodon. Everything is displaying as expected. Thanks for the heads up, though.
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