Talk:Prehistoric Europe

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[edit] Creationists?

I might have missed some mention of it, but how can this article not be factually disputed by creationists? Normally they swarm over these kinds of topics.

Not that I want it to be... it's just a little odd.

They maynot have found the article. They may well believe it doesn't exist, as it talks of a time before "Creation". Who knows? --Sugaar 19:43, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] unencyclopedic?

"though many regions of Europe remained yet illiterate and therefore out of written history for many centuries yet, we must place the boundary somewhere and this date, near the start of our calendar, seems quite convenient."... ... ... This sounds a little unencyclopedic to me. 207.202.227.125 17:33, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Surely. This was one of my first additions to Wikipedia (I believe I wrote that some two years ago) and the idea is that pan-European chronology stops there, while we can still talk of "prehistory" in Northern and Eastern Europe because only in the Middle Ages, even in the Late Middle Ages in many cases, we start having local written sources (i.e. history). The written history of some European regions has just several centuries - think of Finland, for instance.

So guess that the meaning is correct (pan-European chronology for prehistory ends with the Roman Empire, some regions will still be technically "prehistorical" until much late though, some others entered history earlier, like Greece or even parts of Italy) but it can be written in a better way. --Sugaar 19:35, 21 December 2006 (UTC)