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jleopold · 3469 days ago · link · · parent · post: Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say
From my understanding, linguistically, we know about when languages broke off from each other. When combined with our understanding of human migration, the researchers were able to trace back stories common to different cultures to where it originated. A similar technique has been used to create an idea of what proto-Indo-Eurpoean sounded like. Of course, there is migration of ideas, but I assume the researchers would have accounted for that.I have a hard time understanding how they could track back a story without written proof.