How aware were people living in early agricultural communities

>>1702371
Depending on the community, if they had a rudimentary system of writing or had stuff to paint on they most likely had some records still around. In addition hunters would still be a necessity in early agricultural communities, as to meet the demand of short term foodstuffs.

Very aware. Very, very, very aware.

In most early agricultural communities, hunter gatherers were trading or settling down all of the time.

>>1702378
So how/when did "yeah our ancestors used to roam the countryside eating whatever they could kill" morph into "we were specially created by a pantheon of sky people n shiet"? Why did none of this hunter gatheter origin survive in their mythology?

>>1702371
they wouldn't have seen it like that. they'd be the aberration in a world that had been entirely different for untold ages.

>>1702466
>>1702371
It's not as though, at any stage in history, hunting was gone and forgotten - even if today, we do it mostly for sport, even though almost none of us can remember an ancestor who did it out of necessity. "Living off the meat of the land" has always been a thing, regardless of how civilized the people, thus far.

...and said creation mythos tends to involve a stage of primitive man, tales of great hunters, and the like.

>>1702371
they didnt see one or the other as more modern.

nomads and farmers traded all the time.

it was written law that really seperated the men from the boys

Hunting was a popular sport and hunter gathering was a kind of side hustle in areas unsuitable for agriculture. This was notable in places like Greece where the cosmopolitan coast contrasted with mountainous inland regions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(ancient_region)

>>1702466

Note about how there are Myths about how during a long past golden age men did not work the land to get their sustain, but the earth itself was bountiful and the man had just to take whatever fruits he wanted from the threes.

>>1702371
Before archaeology, people had no idea of their ancestors who existed before the invention of writing. MAYBE they were described in a myth.

Sad but true.

>>1702466
>"yeah our ancestors used to roam the countryside eating whatever they could kill" morph into "we were specially created by a pantheon of sky people n shiet"
How are those 2 mutually exclusive?

>>1702466
"Our ancestors used to roam the countryside eating whatever they could find but then we got cursed by god and now we need to farm n shiet"
Doesn't it remember you of jews, greeks, ayyrabs and shiet?