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
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Hunted (The Deadlands #1)
The Lost World of the Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secrets of the Prehistoric Age
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
Stone Lands: A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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 Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
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
The Inheritors
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

The novelist Evelyn Waugh noticed at the time that Evans and his collaborators blended contemporary styles into antique ones: they had “tempered their zeal for accurate reconstruction with a somewhat inappropriate predilection for covers of Vogue.
Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

We are violent because of what we do now, not because of what those hominids back then might have done.
Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

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