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Answer: No. You have to be very stingy with your definition of history and writing to ignore the fossil record as a recording of historical events. We'll revis
by iandanforth 2y ago
Answer: No.
You have to be very stingy with your definition of history and writing to ignore the fossil record as a recording of historical events. We'll revisit the question in several hundred million years and see how oral traditions are doing.
- drewcoo 2y agoThe fossil record is prehistory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history
- jmclnx 2y agoI wonder if in many cases, as time goes on with Oral History, some embellishment creep in, like the sirens of Odysseus. I tend to think yes. I one difference is written history probably does not change much over the years. Also, how many oral stories/histories have been completely lost throughout time ? Where if written down, it is possible something could eventually be found. I think I read somewhere, lots of books are being coded into a media that will last for millions of years. Hopefully that is happening :)