Messages for a future we will never see
Vaults of biological memory
Oral traditions and the memory keepers
Written in stone, clay, and silicon
007skaty Map safe paths up the mountain to discover how sharing knowledge protects future generations.
007skaty In 2015, Nicholas Reid and Patrick Nunn analyzed 21 Aboriginal oral histories describing Australian coasts drowned after the last Ice Age.
How many thousands of years ago did the sea level rise that drowned the coastlines described in Aboriginal oral histories?
What are the traditional narrative paths across the Australian land used by Aboriginal peoples to pass down ecological maps?
Ancient maps: Aboriginal oral stories accurately described Australian coastlines that were drowned by rising seas over 7,000 years ago.
007skaty Klamath warnings about Crater Lake show the power of sharing knowledge across generations.
Which modern-day lake in Oregon was created by the volcanic eruption described in Klamath tribal legends?
A West African storyteller, historian, or musician who maintains a community's oral history. Since the thirteenth century, these historians have preserved the Epic of Sundiata entirely through memory and speech.
What is the literal translation of the Japanese warning markers known as 'tsunami-ishi'?
In which Japanese village did a 19th-century tsunami stone successfully save residents from the devastating 2011 tsunami?
In which historic African empire did the tradition of the griot oral historian play a central political role?