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Actually knowledge has not been handled down at all, but Byakuya's stories. Look at his grave, the last of his time who died and nobody engraved his name on nor shaped it.
And that's more or less my idea when I was thinking how could they have lasted for 4k years. Looking at our world the best examples are African tribes, where knowledge was and is extremely low with almost zero evolution. Pygmies age is 100,000 years to name one of the oldest.
Was it a deliberate Byakuya's choice? or just by chance. More likely he just thought as he said that there was no need to handle down any knowledge because Senku would have taken care of it.
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Thank you very much for the feedback.
I got myself carried by the spur of the moment as I wrote down my review for Dr. Stone's current episode.
I overlooked the inherent risk that comes with passing down information through oral tradition.
It's neither certain nor guaranteed that knowledge will survive through the ages if the current generation fails to pass that knowlege to the next one due to the most obvious scenario that is the current generation having no knowledge of what to make about the world in the first place.
And, even in the slight chance that they manage to pass records for posterity there's no guarantee either that the knowledge will be tampered with by the future generations to come, or simply they wont' either care at all or know what to make of it.