It seems as if Hesiod's Golden Age where "the earth gave for all their needs of its own accord and rivalries of any kind were thus unknown" recalls Hunter-gatherer nomadic life.
Is the Silver Age where people "lived as children with their mothers for a hundred years" then a reference to the contact with the matriarchical Cucuteni-Trypillian culture?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_and_end_of_the_Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillian_culture#Gradual_assimilation_theory
How would Hesiod know anything about either of those things?
>>1151879
Oral tradition?
>>1151908
>Oral tradition?
Thousands of years later? No way.
>>1151836
>matriarchical Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
Feminist wewuzzing
>>1152007
New Zealand aboriginals have stories from the time when New Zealand was united to Australia (that is the ice age). Nothing impossible about it.