Technically it means "before we started writing things down", but it's usually meant as "before ancient greece". Often ignoring that people in other places wrote a lot of things down before that, or that other cultures oral histories go back much further.
In this context, it just leans much harder on the racism as these guys always say non-European people are too ignorant or innocent to know what their own stories mean. And obviously this renegade historian knows the REAL truth where they couldn't.
Kaminosai t1_ix6qahq wrote
Reply to comment by mandianansi in An archaeologist's rebuttal against Graham Hancock and Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse by MeatballDom
Technically it means "before we started writing things down", but it's usually meant as "before ancient greece". Often ignoring that people in other places wrote a lot of things down before that, or that other cultures oral histories go back much further.
In this context, it just leans much harder on the racism as these guys always say non-European people are too ignorant or innocent to know what their own stories mean. And obviously this renegade historian knows the REAL truth where they couldn't.