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Oral Tradition is often referred to as history that has not been written down.
Depending on the context, such as in cultural anthropology and Archaeology classes, the term for history not written down can also be prehistory, assuming it covers a time period before there were written records. In still another context, such as when describing details of everyday life of past peoples, it can be called the unwritten history - because it was during the historic period, but was not considered significant enough for anyone to write down.
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Is oral history written down?
Oral means spoken, so no. But it can be written down later, at which time it is written history, not oral history.
From a time before written history?
Before history was written down people passed down their history by telling stories.
What is the history of writing about history called?
Historiography
What is history's timeline?
The first recorded history is probably cavemen drawings, anything before that can only be known by fossil records. The invention of clay, metal tablets and eventually paper (known as papyrus to the Ancient Egyptians) forever changed the history of history because we had a way to record it. Nowadays we have millions of textbooks and artifacts to study the history of man. 'History' is literally the written word. The History of History should refer to the development of writing, as a method of communication, recording, art, self-expression. That is why there is such a things as Pre-History, that is, all that occurred before the written word. There is such a things a Proto-history which is that era, incorporating the Dark Ages, so called because of the lack of written texts, where only a few exmaples of writing survive and History, as in the record of the past, is unravelled from later texts, Bede for instance in England, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, and various oral sources also subsequently written down in later times, sagas and poems for instance, the Song of Roland and Beowulf being the two best examples. History of History could also know as the history where history come from .
Why is history called history what is the answer?
the word History can be broken up into two words his and story this is where the word history came from.
