alt Hacker NewsConventionally, History starts with written records. Everything that came before is prehistoric. It’s useful as a concept when discussion groups of humans in the last 10-odd millennia, but not really for things that are a couple of millions years old.
> Everything that came before is prehistoric.
Hi, Wikipedia doesn't agree with you:
> Prehistory [...] is the period of _human_ history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.
Emphasis mine on "human".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory