[javbit]

I think I read somewhere that Aboriginal Australians have oral tradition that mentions rain forests covering much of the continent. I wonder if these are the same (edit: perhaps remnants of, since the fossils are dated in the millions of years) forests that the article mentions.

If anything, really shows how the “traditional” knowledge that I personally did not consider much before may be worth taking a second look at.

[briga]

Considering that the Aborigines spent tens of thousands of years doing controlled burns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming), it's quite likely the ecosystem and climate changed quite a bit in that time, much like every piece of land humans have touched.

[landemva]

The Vikings lost that battle in Greenland when global cooling covered it with snow and ice.

[briga]

Well that still remains to be seen

[femto]

Aboriginal oral tradition is often an accurate historical record:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/research-gives-merit-...

As the article notes, oral tradition has "error correction" built into it as multiple generations overlap and check each other's accuracy of retelling. It's not like a game of "telephone", where the message gets repeated only once.

[morphle]

https://ap-st01.ext.exlibrisgroup.com/61USC_INST/upload/1641...

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/38936810/OralTradSeaLe...

https://watermark.silverchair.com/113nunn.pdf?token=AQECAHi2...

[Tagbert]

I recognize that the Aboriginal and other oral traditions preserve information for a long time, but this article is talking about climate from before the end of the Miocene around 5 million years ago. If the stores were about a previous climate it was a much younger climate than this one.

[javbit]

Yeah, I realized after I wrote my initial comment. Sometimes tangential thoughts just hijack your mind :D