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Definition of Prehistory
1. Noun. The time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word.
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Terms within: Bronze Age, Iron Age, Stone Age, Glacial Epoch, Glacial Period, Ice Age
Derivative terms: Prehistoric, Prehistoric
Definition of Prehistory
1. Noun. The history of human culture prior to written records ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prehistory
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prehistory
Literary usage of Prehistory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the History of History by James Thomson Shotwell (1922)
"Once, not so very long ago, prehistory meant what it seems to say; it Implied in
... The prehistory of Egypt, Babylonia and the /Egean is now treated in the ..."
2. Epistemological Problems of Economics by Ludwig von Mises (2003)
"The Critique of Rationalism by Ethnology and prehistory Attempts to undermine
the "rationalistic" starting point of economic theory by drawing on the ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1904)
"SAHARAN prehistory. Norberto Font y Sague published in the "Boletin de la Sociedad
... prehistory."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1904)
"... recent discussions of the questions involved 'n the question of "race
heredity," "higher and lower races," " Aryanism," etc. * # * SAMARAN prehistory. ..."
5. Adventure Guide to Ireland by Tina Neylon (2004)
"prehistory History There are traces of food-gatherers and hunters dating back to
the Mesolithic period, around 8000 BC, but the first inhabitants who left ..."
6. A Century of Archaeological Discoveries by Adolf Michaelis (1908)
"Vili prehistory AND PRIMITIVE GREECE FROM the decline of antiquity we may turn
our eyes back to its beginnings. It is again the unobtrusive painted pottery ..."
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