Originally Posted by
Astalnar
No, it's rather black and white. If it's bunch of cavedwellers painting mammoths, it's not part of history. If it's letters, hieroglyphs, runes or I don't what kind of signs carved, written or painted on a surface that can range all the way from wood, stone, clay to including paper, it's part of history. Oral tradition is not part of history, as it preceeds it. Main reason being, humorously enough, unreliability of the oral tradition. Still as the historians are the ones that had to start with something and limit their filed of work with some substantial deliniation, this one works just fine.