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
Lost Gods Of Albion The Chalk Hill-Figures Of Britain by Paul  NewmanThe Long Man of Wilmington, East Sussex by John H. FarrantThe Tattooed Hills by Jon WoolcottThe White Horses of the West of England by Rev. W. C. PlenderleathThe Cerne Giant by Rodney Castleden
Hill Figures of England
31 books — 1 voter
The Civilization of the Goddess by Marija GimbutasThe Living Goddesses by Marija GimbutasThe Well of Remembrance by Ralph MetznerThe Chalice and the Blade by Riane EislerAcross Atlantic Ice by Dennis J. Stanford
Best Books About Stone Age Europe
42 books — 8 voters

The Iron Age in Northern Britain by Dennis W. HardingThe Smart Neanderthal by Clive FinlaysonThe Dancing Goddesses by Elizabeth Wayland BarberEurope Between the Oceans by Barry CunliffeTime Song by Julia Blackburn
Prehistoric Europe
97 books — 5 voters
Hengeworld by Mike PittsScenes from Prehistoric Life by Francis PryorHow to Build Stonehenge by Mike PittsStonehenge by Francis PryorAncient Stones by Salvatore Piccolo
Megaliths and Their Kindred
38 books — 2 voters


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

Arthur C. Clarke
When the first faint glow of dawn crept into the cave Moon-Watcher saw that his father had died in the night. He did not know the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness
Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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