i agree with yee i suggest that the word 'history' does imply a date even according to wikipedia itself under wikiarticle 'history' we note historians limit their study to events that have been recorded since the introduction of the earliest known written and historical records notably the narmer palette of circa bc events before then are called prehistory a period informed by the fields of palaeontology and archaeology for this reason that paleolithic first sentence sounds inconsistent with what we academically and casually define as history there are many other indicators that the word 'history' implies a connection with written records or archaeological records for instance when we say 'ancient history of china' we don't talk start by talking about its paleolithic era but instead about state formation in chou dynasty