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How Did Humans Navigate for Sixty Thousand Years Without Maps? - Wayfinding Without Maps in Human History | Sleepy Facts About History
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For roughly sixty thousand years, human beings crossed deserts, oceans, ice fields, and rivers without carrying anything resembling a map. Yet they arrived precisely where they intended, relying on knowledge systems as rigorous as any written discipline. This episode explores the cognitive and social achievements of non-written navigation, examining how routes were stored not in paper or silicon, but in trained bodies, rhythmic language, and the memory of those who survived the journey…
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