alt Hacker NewsI think specifying "recorded history" would remove the confusion. Human history could refer to the history of anatomically modern humans, including before farming.
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throwaway27448 • today at 2:42 PM
History is a bit of a confusing word that way; I suppose I can see it can be used in an informal sense to refer to any timeline outside of just historiography, which does tend to refer to a distinct study from archaeology and anthropology. Noted.
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History is recorded, that's the definition of the word. Prehistory is not recorded which is what the 500 kya to 10 kya refers to.