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jorisboris ◴[] No.45099826[source]
Every time I read an article like this I end up in a rabbit hole of reading about ice ages, sea level changes, and how the human evolved throughout it. It’s mind boggling that only 20000 years ago the sea level was 120 meters lower and much of Northern Europe was covered in ice
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iamflimflam1 ◴[] No.45100417[source]
I wonder how rapidly the change occurred - were the people aware of it happening? Did they have people saying “don’t listen to Yarg! These recent floods are just normal weather…”
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1. alentred ◴[] No.45102322[source]
My uneducated guess is: probably not before writing was invented. Populations where nomadic, changes were likely slow and life expectancy was much shorter. With no record keeping it is unlikely they had means to notice the changes.