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p314159i t1_jbr63fe wrote

Reply to comment by MeatballDom in ‘Dates add nothing to our culture’: Everywhen explores Indigenous deep history, challenging linear, colonial narratives by B0ssc0

It isn't like the lack of dates complete frustrates attempts to understand but it would be significantly easier if they existed. Lack of dates is not the end of the world but it is something which is missing and you have to do a significant amount of work to just achieve the same level of understanding that would be available if it just had dates. When the dates don't exist the dates need to be created through meticulous work because dates are needed.

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MeatballDom t1_jbr6i17 wrote

As asked above: What/who are you basing this methodology on, how is the better than other evidence in culture, and how are you going to be certain of the dates in the evidence?

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p314159i t1_jbr6ryg wrote

Yes dates can be made up but so can literally everything else.

Basically this is just a question of if having an additional piece of information (a date) is good or not. I think having more information is a good thing.

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