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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
Glencoe World History text book, (certainly not a religious book at all) copyright 2003 says this in the introduction:
The most common definition of history is "a record of the past." To create this record, historians use documents (what has been recorded or written) such as pottery, tools, and weapons; and even art works. History in this sense really began five thousand to six thousand years ago, when people first began to write and keep records." page XX
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The cave paintings at Lascaux are around 20,000 years old. They are the record of a people that lived and flourished at that time. The oldest "writing" currently known are some tortoise shells that date to 8,600 years ago found in China.
Since they are older than your 6,000 years, that's a problem. Another often overlooked problem is that they are the product of a human civilization that isn't even known or mentioned in the "Table of Nations" in
Genesis 10.