phase in neither case ceases with the beginning of 
the written phase of the history of these peoples, 
A large part of the history of each being unrecorded 
passes at once into the realm of archeology. 
Although no definite separation can be mo.de, there 
may be distinguished arbitrarily for convenience of 
presentation a written and a prewritten phase of history; 
the former relating to the past of peoples whose history 
0 CLEAR is known more or less fully historically, much of which, 
IV If ION 
ETWEEN 
'KITTEN AND however, can be known only through objective evidence 
WRITTEN. 
not written into books — evidence which must be dug 
from the ground or brought forward from a multitude 
HISTORIC of forgotten hiding places. Thus the history of Rome 
ROME. 
is recorded in a thousand volumes, yet there is much 
more of historic Home that can be known only to the 
