We already know how oral cultures work: they use technologies such as rhyme, meter, music, stock characters, memory palaces, and more. If you want a good example of how powerful this stuff is, think about the last time you had a song stuck in your head.
I’m not sure of my retelling of events from the same day.
Aboriginal storytelling is claimed to pass on events from 7k+ years ago.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049182.2015.10...
We already know how oral cultures work: they use technologies such as rhyme, meter, music, stock characters, memory palaces, and more. If you want a good example of how powerful this stuff is, think about the last time you had a song stuck in your head.