Historians who insist on a rigid separation between “prehistory” and “history” may be forgetting that: _____________.
a. The scientific instruments used by anthropologists have a high failure rate in the field.
b. Archaeologists developed the parameters of field surveys long before “history” existed as a literary form.
c. Written records can be highly unreliable documents, subject to manipulation before, during, and after their original production.
d. Written records have survived from 2 million years ago, but the languages in which they were composed are, at least today, untranslatable.
c. Written records can be highly unreliable documents, subject to manipulation before, during, and after their original production.
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