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
