• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s not that long gone. There were still mammoths around when the pyramids were built. Plus there’s still huge swaths of tundra and taiga that they could live on, with a lot of the same plants, even if it’s quite a bit warmer.

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      2 months ago

      In the grand scheme of things the pyramids were built relatively recently, but I’d still consider it quite long ago

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        2 months ago

        Measured in human life it’s long ago. measured at universal scales, it was nothing.

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          2 months ago

          A good measurement for human timescales is the age difference between a child and their grandfather (~50 years, basically one generation of oral tradition).
          The mammoths died out 80 grandfathers ago.

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            2 months ago

            That’s an interesting unit of measure for sure. I do get what you’re saying–that’s sort of the limit to where some knowledge can reach.