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Prehistory

Prehistory is the period before recorded history, that is, before the development of writing systems. Therefore, prehistory ends at different times in different regions, depending on when writing developed in that region. Much of what we know about prehistory comes from the study of archaeology.

See also prehistoric (fiction).
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Circle of Days
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave
The Forbidden (The Ancestors Saga, #1)
Hunted (The Deadlands #1)
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The Inheritors

Prehistory is about the present day; it always has been.
Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Toba Beta
Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered. But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it. ...more
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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