Memory vice writing as a way to record our history

       Now this method was even taught at one time, in Malta, I believe. Basically if we did not write things down, then recording our history was a big enough deal to our distant ancestors to where they used the memory method. Of course one can do the math to see if a generation or two gets eradicated, then this whole memory history setup fails, too. And all this was probably before we had writing and the time to even record history that way. After all, being warm and fed has priority almost everywhere.

            Yet this method appears to be alive and well even up to today.

            For example, think of your Family stories, and the times assembled to tell them to our younger members. Usually, it is our grandparents sharing their stories with the younger generations.

            Even in the USA, the Civil War is still alive and well in many peoples' minds, even after a century and a half. And an awful lot of Americans still remember the Trail of Tears (circa the 1830's), the enforced removal of the Southeastern Indian tribes out to the Indian Territories, now called Oklahoma.

            Now this all seems like memory history, to me. For sure it is probably different from what was taught in Malta, but still lives on in humanity and Families and even the USA.

            I suspect most of this type history is not taught in schools, and in writing particularly.