History is generally divided into three time periods known as Prehistory, Proto-history and history.
Prehistory: The Prehistoric period is the time when
human don’t had understanding of writing or you can say writing had not
been invented. Obviously for the Prehistoric period we don’t have
written records. The knowledge of Prehistory is totally depends on
archaeology, physical remains of past such as pots, jewellery ,tools,
coins etc.
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Archaeologists perform different tests on these articles to find out actual time to which these belongs. Carbon dating is most widely used technique to find out the time or period of ancient artifacts.
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Protohistory: The Proto-historic period is the period for which we have written records. However these are quite few and hard to understand some text as till now deciphered. Example of such a period is Indus Valley Civilization.
History: The time period after the invention of writing is known as history. We have written records from this period. Early writings was done on rocks, pillars, copper-plates, clay tablets, palm leaves and on the bark of birch trees. over the year many of these evidences have been destroyed still these are rich and reliable source of information
>>why you should study history>>
Archaeologists perform different tests on these articles to find out actual time to which these belongs. Carbon dating is most widely used technique to find out the time or period of ancient artifacts.
Protohistory: The Proto-historic period is the period for which we have written records. However these are quite few and hard to understand some text as till now deciphered. Example of such a period is Indus Valley Civilization.
History: The time period after the invention of writing is known as history. We have written records from this period. Early writings was done on rocks, pillars, copper-plates, clay tablets, palm leaves and on the bark of birch trees. over the year many of these evidences have been destroyed still these are rich and reliable source of information
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