In traditional societies with cyclic time concepts the content of tradition was original, proven and true, because it represented the origin of the settlement and conditioned its present. This is the reason why traditional society shows only very little progress. Cyclic time is bound to its origins, it does not seek change. The concept of originality is not related to the individual subject, but to the origins that have conditioned the present. If, for example, historians of art speak of traditional folk art in a pejorative sense as being stereotype and having no 'originality', this shows that they are fixed on linear history and the profanised concept of the Renaissance-creator.
Tradition is methodologically important in our concept.
Owing to this enormously dominating strength of tradition, systematic reconstructions are possible without written history. Prehistorians have neglected the importance of object tradition. ETH Z rich 1980. Domenig shows that immanent semantic ideology was part of structural developments. The misjudged philosophy of agrarian prehistory.