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Any historical texts that examine the Pre-Columbian history of America north of the Rio Grande using Oral Histories as primary sources?

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Was the Toltec Empire a real historical polity? If not, how did Aztec legends of them come to be?

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Are there any ways to read Inuit accounts of the Tuniit? Everything I've read seems to allude to oral history, but not provide sources or quotes.

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After the cultural explosion at Cahokia, nearby settlements like Aztalan picked up Cahokian governance and cultures extremely quickly. What makes us think is this is due to "influence" and not conquest or political union?

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I’ve heard that there are places without writing until relatively recently but have kept oral records well enough that history can be told accurately thousands of years back, eg Polynesia, Australia and the Pacific Northwest. Is this true and if so, how does it work and what can be gleaned from it?

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Classical Crete has multiple inscriptions in a local, non-Greek language called Eteocretan. What do we know about these enigmatic indigenous people?

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Minoans and Mycenaeans may have had a tradition of writing on paper. Do we have any archaeological remnants of this?

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What did Bronze Age societies like Akkad, Egypt etc write about the Minoans?

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Do the Hatti, Minoans, Pre-Greeks, etc. Come from a source population in Anatolia? What, if any, relation do they have to Çatalhöyük?

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How much can indigenous American oral history tell us about the precolumbian history of the continent?

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Any historical texts that examine the Pre-Columbian history of America north of the Rio Grande using Oral Histories as primary sources?	8	AskHistorians
Was the Toltec Empire a real historical polity? If not, how did Aztec legends of them come to be?	7	AskHistorians
Are there any ways to read Inuit accounts of the Tuniit? Everything I've read seems to allude to oral history, but not provide sources or quotes.	7	AskHistorians
After the cultural explosion at Cahokia, nearby settlements like Aztalan picked up Cahokian governance and cultures extremely quickly. What makes us think is this is due to "influence" and not conquest or political union?	7	AskHistorians
I’ve heard that there are places without writing until relatively recently but have kept oral records well enough that history can be told accurately thousands of years back, eg Polynesia, Australia and the Pacific Northwest. Is this true and if so, how does it work and what can be gleaned from it?	7	AskHistorians
Classical Crete has multiple inscriptions in a local, non-Greek language called Eteocretan. What do we know about these enigmatic indigenous people?	6	AskHistorians
Minoans and Mycenaeans may have had a tradition of writing on paper. Do we have any archaeological remnants of this?	6	AskHistorians
What did Bronze Age societies like Akkad, Egypt etc write about the Minoans?	5	AskHistorians
Do the Hatti, Minoans, Pre-Greeks, etc. Come from a source population in Anatolia? What, if any, relation do they have to Çatalhöyük?	5	AskHistorians
How much can indigenous American oral history tell us about the precolumbian history of the continent?	5	AskHistorians