Practice question · True or false
Prehistory accounts for roughly 95% of the human story.
Hints
- Compare the span before writing with the span after it.
- Writing occupies only the last fraction of the human story.
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True
Why
And in it: Göbekli Tepe, the crossing to Australia, seven independent agricultures, and Chauvet. It is not the prologue to the human story, it is nearly all of it, and the only thing it lacks is a narrator.
Practise Synthesis: The Human Journey
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