prehistory

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noun the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word

From pre- (“before”) + history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.

“The study of the science of art,” says Professor Grosse,[42] “should not turn to history or to prehistory. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere

prehistoric culture

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