What Does 'Prehistory' Mean?

[EneaBianchi]

It's not history BABEYYYY! IT'S ARCHEOLOGY!

[bd]

Kind of weird to think about the fact that there are places where history only really began in the last 2, 000 years. Shows how new widespread human civilization is and how fast that technological advancement happened

[emc]

The dinosaurs were dreadful at record-keeping. 😣🦕

[jezusbloodie]

I remember when I as like a 15y/o first realised that all the "ages" are location bound, that the bronze age here in the Netherlands started and ended later than the bronze age in the fertile crescent. My mind was gobsmackingly blown and I spent weeks doodling on printed empty maps to understand that 15y/o me wouldn't not be able to capture the nuances of tens of millenia on doodles

Man, I love history and everything before it. Love me some future history even more

[scotthannan]

I mean the druids did have writing, because after all they had the IKEA instructions for putting up the henge. it’s just that the instructions were so frustrating they threw them away. Plus it had a confusing Swedish name of Stenrunga

[NIRDIAN]

Archeology, OR Paleontology! Depends on where those nude apes were and what they were doing. :)

[StephenBoothUK]

Recent work with the native aboriginal people of Australia has verified that their multigenerational checking of oral historical recitation means that many of their stories previously thought to be fantasy are very likely accurate first person observations from over 100, 000 years ago. Archaeologists are excavating animal remains from that period that are almost exact matches to stories told by the natives but were otherwise unknown in, written, historical times. This points to these stories being true records of events.

[SirDamatoIII]

Welcome to “time immemorial”, which as it turns out has an actual date!

[bobmcbob]

I still like the ancient Greek definition of history.
You have obscure history where there are no records at all, then legendary history where it's oral legends but mostly stuff like mythological heroes and gods, then there's written history.

[subtropical]

I remember in college this was the first thing we learned in the History & Historians class, and I was kinda bummed because I like ancient history best! 😂 i was like dang should I be taking an archaeology class? 😂

[thenecromancer]

You know they're a fantastic presenter when you click on a video regarding a question you already know the answer to, simply because you're interested in their explanation of it

[tonygroves]

A phrase I heard as a kid was "before recorded history" I haven't heard it for a long time!

[Heymrk]

This is what I do for a living. I'm an archivist.

[mrbushi]

I've been on a huge archeology and Neolithic Kick. It's amazing the New World never made it out of the stone age and Aztecs had records!

What blows my mind is when you think about it. Cortez and the Spanish were renaissance era vs Stone age conflict. That is some Civilization the game stuff!

[Otterwaffle]

Yeah it's like when you start learning history and they gotta define the terms "civilization" for example and when you read anything but contemporary scholars (and even then) the line is somewhere like "groups of people who aren't savages/barbarians". The line being put at writing is understandable when historians are the most concerned with written sources, but often was used to judge oral traditions. I'm glad the field is changing, and we start to recognize the histories of all peoples.

[kilbilv]

Prehistory is where toddler history goes to learn the starter pack of history. Then there’s kinderhistory, where you learn about history’s second DLC

[davidhaas]

Thank you for giving the archeologists some credit. Historians seem to rarely do that.

[weege.]

That chagrin in that smile at the end.

[SVoided]

Where I live in the UK we are doing an archeological dig in prehistory trying to piece together what actually happened 4000 years ago

[bjgaspar]

This is one of the reasons I find your channel so interesting (aside from the accent).

As an American, our "pre-history" is Native American culture (whats not been decimated by western expansion), and "history" which is barely 300 years old.