THEwriting, civilization, culture do not emerge miraculously. As with the appearance of homo sapiens, it is a long process. Before him homo erectus came and stood up. Then homo habilis made himself tools, and began to bury his dead. But, it is truly homo sapiens that enters into the language and communication with rock art. Pictograms (representation of men and animals), ideograms (symbols, lines), psychograms are a real means of communication and are the beginnings of writing. Why is it always said that writing and therefore history originated in Mesopotamia? Because it is from this that our writing derives? The other scriptures are also important and valid (hieroglyphics, Chinese script and more recently Mende script and others).
And why link this writing to the beginning of the story? What is the meaning of the word history? In the dictionary we find: knowledge or relation of past events, facts relating to the evolution of humanity.