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January 21st, 2016 | #1 |
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No fairy tale: Origins of some famous stories go back thousands of years
No fairy tale: Origins of some famous stories go back thousands of years
Statistical analysis of language evolution helps estimate storytelling dates Statistical ties between a set of folktales and languages from parts of Europe and Asia have helped researchers date the origins of some stories to thousands of years ago. The roots of the oldest one — a folktale called “The Smith and the Devil” — stretch back to the Bronze Age. The findings, reported January 20 in Royal Society Open Science, may dispel the thought that some well-known folktales such as “Rumpelstiltskin” and “Beauty and the Beast” are recent inventions. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...housands-years |
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