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by femto 1626 days ago
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.

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