Recorded history

History based on a written record Part of a series onHuman history ↑ Prehistory (Stone Age) (Pleistocene epoch) Holocene TimelinesNeolithic – Contemporary(11,650 BP – present) Age of the human race Recorded history (Common Era) Earliest records Protohistory Proto-writing Ancient Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Axial Age Classical antiquity Late antiquity Africa North America South America Oceania East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia Europe Postclassical Timeline Africa Americas Oceania East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia Europe Renaissance Modern Early modern Late modern Contemporary Africa North America South America Oceania East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia Europe See also Age of Discovery Modernity Postmodernity Futurology Political history ↓ Future vte Linear A etched on tablets found in Akrotiri, Santorini Palenque Glyphs that has a total of 92 glyphs on the tablet Recorded history or written history describes historical events recorded in written form or other documented communication that are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method. For broader world history, recorded history begins with the accounts of the ancie