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How soon did people start writing about secular prehistory - what we would call the Stone Age? Did any medieval or ancient writers speculate about a time before metal, open prehistoric barrows, etc?	211
What was happening in the “predynastic”(wrong word, but I don’t know a better one) periods of pristine complex societies everywhere in the world?	113
Aboriginal Australian oral histories go back 10,000 years. What’re some of the other oldest events referenced by humans outside of Australia? Did, say, the ancient Greeks or Egyptians or Chinese reference similarly ancient things?	111
When did musical bands like those we have today develop? If you were walking around in ancient Rome might you see and advertisement for something like “Theseus and the Minotaurs playing at X Tavern, three nights only”?	88
Would the Aztecs, Incas and other American civilizations be considered Neolithic states? Or does the whole Paleolithic-Mesolithic-Neolithic scheme not really apply to the Americas?	70
What did the Aztecs, Incans and Mayans think the universe was shaped like? Did they figure out that the Earth was a globe before the Spanish conquest?	52
When Darwin first proposed evolutionary theory, were there priests who fully accepted and integrated it into their religious views before it became “officially” unacceptable?	40
Did any ancient writers or historians reference the Stone Age?	34
Did any England ever have a raiding culture? Did small boats or fleets without official sanction sail to Spain, Iceland, Denmark etc. to attack seaside villages?	17
After/during the Spanish Conquest, did individual Inca (Tawantinsuyu) people start writing using the Latin alphabet? If so, what did they write?	10

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