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In general "human history" starts with the first written word, around 10,000 BC. Everything before that is considered prehistory. Of course, humans didn't simpl
by tremon 6y ago
In general "human history" starts with the first written word, around 10,000 BC. Everything before that is considered prehistory. Of course, humans didn't simply come into existence 12,000 years ago, but we have very little conception of life before The Word (tm).
- dividedbyzero 6y agoUnless I'm unaware of some new discoveries, i believe the first written word (that is clearly identifiable as a written word) would be in cuneiform, around 3500 BC, in ancient Sumer.
- tremon 6y agoYou are correct. I was confusing human history with recorded history. Wikipedia tells me that human history starts with the agricultural revolution, around 10,000 BC. Recorded history starts, as you say, in the 4th millennium BC.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoI'm pretty sure they were vandalizing caves long before they were writing cuneiform. Though it's debatable whether those illustrations counts that as "history" since it's more like a powerpoint than a memo.
- scollet 6y agoI can't take another of Grug's hour-long rant about live stocks being down and how we need to divest from transportation.