prehistory

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ history. The first use of the word occurred in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836.[1]

  1. ↑ Eddy, Matthew Daniel (2011), “The Prehistoric Mind as a Historical Artefact”, in Notes and Records of the Royal Society‎, volume 65, DOI:10.1098/rsnr.2010.0097, pages 1–8

Noun

prehistory (countable and uncountable, plural prehistories)

  1. (historiography) The history of human culture prior to written records.
  2. The history of the events that led up to something (e.g. a crisis, a reconciliation, etc).

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