[malakhi]

There is "history" in the context of the recording of human experience. And there is "history" in the context of what has happened in the past, even in the distant past long before human existence. You are conflating the two.

[betty boop]

You are conflating the two.

I am not, malakhi. The second type of "history" you mention is not "history" at all. History is based on contemporaneous observers who record their observations. Absent that, there is only myth.

[RightWhale]

there is "history" in the context of what has happened in the past, even in the distant past long before human existence

History is the conscious evolution of human society. It has nothing to do with the recording of anything. What is in the recorder's office is not history. What is surmised from the contents of the recorder's office might be.