alt Hacker NewsDid they have writing and kept records that we've found? That's the "recorded" part.
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0points • yesterday at 3:19 PM
In Norway, the oldest written records are barely 1000 years old.
Did they have writing and kept records that we've found? That's the "recorded" part.
In Norway, the oldest written records are barely 1000 years old.
If writing is your yardstick then 7000 years is way too far back. There was likely proto-writing back then (some of the figures at gobekli tepe are found in a very similar form in later scripts of the area[1], there are clearer forms of proto-writings from CA 6000~7000 BCE in various cultures) however writing proper is only currently known from 3000 BCE onwards.
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330759548_World's_F...