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
Stone Lands: A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
Hunted (The Deadlands #1)
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
Survival (The Deadlands #3)
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture
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 Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Inheritors
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

Graham Hancock
It was not until 2014, more than two decades after the mastodon's discovery [a mastodon scavenged by humans in the Americas], that the tide decisively turned. Built on improved understanding of processes that incorporate natural uranium and its decay products in fossil bone, a newly enhanced technique, known as 230 Th/U radiometric dating, was now available that could settle the age of the Cerutti deposit once and for all. Deméré therefore sent several of the mastodon bones to the US Geological ...more
Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

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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