Kinda a thought that pops into my head from time to time about if people that lived well before writing wanted to leave an eternal legacy and at best we see their remains dressed in ornaments.
It’s interesting to think that someone that lived 50k years ago paved a path for me in the sense that they probably exploded lands weren’t known to their tribe or human at the, found new edible plants, or maybe created a new tool.
Crazy to think that there’s billions of humans that I contributed to the life I have know and their names have long since been lost to time and that what I do today can still affect someone well into the future
We can get some stories from even before writing because oral traditions can carry stories till the invention of writing. That why I picked 50k years ago since I doubt stories could consistently last more than a few hundred years. I would consider writing that has been lost to time and destruction, and writing that need context outside of the story to be understood.