Early human: When human history started?

Answer 1

Recorded history can be defined as history that has been written down or recorded by the use of language, whereas history is a more general term referring simply to information about the past.

Human History started in the IV millennium BC, with the invention of writing.

The oldest-known forms of writing were primarily logographic in nature, based on pictographic and ideographic elements. Most writing systems can be broadly divided into three categories: logographic, syllabic and alphabetic (or segmental); however, all three may be found in any given writing system in varying proportions, often making it difficult to categorise a system uniquely.

The invention of the first writing systems is roughly contemporary with the beginning of the Bronze Age in the late Neolithic of the late 4th millennium BC. The first writing system is generally believed to have been invented in Sumer, by the late 3rd millennium developing into the archaic cuneiform of the Ur III stage. Contemporaneously, the Proto-Elamite script developed into Linear Elamite.

The development of Egyptian hieroglyphs is also parallel to that of the Mesopotamian scripts, and not necessarily independent. The Egyptian proto-hieroglyphic symbol system develops into archaic hieroglyphs by 3200 BC (Narmer Palette) and more widespread literacy by the mid 3rd millennium (Pyramid Texts).

The Indus script develops over the course of the 3rd millennium, either as a form of proto-writing, or already an archaic mode of writing, but its evolution was cut short by the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization around 1900 BC.

The Chinese script may have originated independently of the Middle Eastern scripts, around the 16th century BC (early Shang Dynasty), out of a late neolithic Chinese system of proto-writing dating back to c. 6000 BC.

The pre-Columbian writing systems of the Americas (including among others Olmec and Mayan) also had independent origins.

Almost all known writing systems of the world today are ultimately descended from writing as developed either in Egypt - see Genealogy of scripts derived from Proto-Sinaitic - or in China. There have been a number of notable exceptions, such as the Mayan hieroglyphs of Mesoamerica (developing from ca. the 3rd century BC), and possibly Rongorongo of the Easter Island.

Answer 2

Human history started at around 1000 b.c where the egyptians started to use photographic images to write but when history goes into the future they start to makes words in the early 100b.c