A couple of things that may help discussion in this thread: 1) Historians do history, that is the period with a written record. Writing is at most a few thousa

A couple of things that may help discussion in this thread: 1) Historians do history, that is the period with a written record. Writing is at most a few thousand years old, whereas "behaviorally modern" humans are starting maybe ~80,000 years ago 2) Anthropology split into those who eschew science and write nonsense (e.g., cultural, social anthropologists) and those who do science (e.g., biological anthropologists) a few decades ago. The anti-science anthropologists are driven by political views. See the Napoleon Chagnon controversy. 3) Mostly, you're actually interested in archaeologists here :-)