In the Grip of Sacred History.

The article discusses the failure of historians to acknowledge a revolution during the second half of the nineteenth century. During this period, historians discarded sacred history as a factual account of human history and began to offer secularized alternatives. However, standard narratives found in textbooks never fully abandoned the geographical and chronological grip of sacred history. In this paper, the author argues that historians has never escaped the grip of sacred history. The paper also explores to create a space for writing a deep history of humankind that integrates the Paleolithic into the general framework of historical understanding.