fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months agoThe Ljungavik Dog: A Mesolithic dog burialmander.xyzexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago before all known human history Wrong. Earlier than written history (because writing was not invented then), but civilization is older.
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoHistory as an academic term usually goes hand in hand with writing, not civilization. When I write, I refer to earlier periods as “prehistoric.” This is because historians primarily use written text and similar as their subject of study.
Wrong. Earlier than written history (because writing was not invented then), but civilization is older.
History as an academic term usually goes hand in hand with writing, not civilization. When I write, I refer to earlier periods as “prehistoric.” This is because historians primarily use written text and similar as their subject of study.