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minus-squareJesus_666@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoThat’s my point: The classical definition makes the assumption that written records are the only records with any kind of reliability, which doesn’t hold everywhere. I could’ve phrased it better.
minus-squareTranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoThat was also my original point when I said it disrupted the concept of prehistory.
That’s my point: The classical definition makes the assumption that written records are the only records with any kind of reliability, which doesn’t hold everywhere.
I could’ve phrased it better.
That was also my original point when I said it disrupted the concept of prehistory.