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The majority of the events listed on the timeline occur after 10,000 B.C.E.

How does the work of historians and archaeologists help explain why we know more about recent events than ones that occurred earlier?

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Archaeologists and historians study the past by examining artifacts and documents that people have left behind. We may know more about recent events than earlier ones because there is more evidence available to social scientists.

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Written records, for example, could not have been left behind by cultures that had yet to develop writing

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