Ancient Australian Aboriginal memory tool superior to 'memory palace' learning

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6. Exactly, I suppose someone is trying to be proprietary

Oral historians here and I imagine elsewhere use a sort of musical chant form. I've heard it but knew better than to ask for a translation. Some of it has been shared with the latest crop of anthropologists who, instead of digging up their ancestors and sending them to the Smithsonian, are using GPR to identify burials so they don't disturb the dead. That's going a long way toward interesting tribal people in anthropology.

A story that came out last year that astonished me was this: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/budj-bim-0013281 A history that stretches back tens of thousands of years is astonishing enough, but having it in an intact oral form is mind blowing to those of us who played "gossip" as kids.

It's said that the Druids refused to write any of their lore down because that would decrease the ability to memorize. Maybe they were correct.