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Cave paintings, from 32, 000 years ago, are one of the oldest forms of human expression and could be either a record of what prehistoric man caught on hunting trips, i. e. non-fiction, or alternately a story expressing what they would like to catch on future occasions, i. e. fiction.

If cave art is ambiguous on this matter then cuneiform inscriptions which hold the earliest writings seem to have been initially for non-fiction.