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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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life (DK Children's Anthologies)
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
We Are Human Animals
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Tuki: Fight for Fire
The Other Ancient Civilisations: Decoding Archaeology’s Less Celebrated Cultures (History Gifts, Ancient World History)
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
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
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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)
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)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The Inheritors

Yuval Noah Harari
Sadly, there's no natural balance between war and peace. It takes two tribes to make peace, but it only takes one to start a war. ...more
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization

Along the way I kept running across wonderful bits of information about the women - virtually always women - who produced these textiles and about the values that different societies put on the products and their makers. When I talked about my work, people seemed especially eager for these vignettes, stories that told of women's lives thousands of years ago. ...more
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

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