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
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
The Forbidden (The Ancestors Saga, #1)
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Hunted (The Deadlands #1)
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
The Other Ancient Civilisations: Decoding Archaeology’s Less Celebrated Cultures (History Gifts, Ancient World History)
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
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)
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
The Inheritors
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
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

House of Rain by Craig ChildsAncient Peoples of the American Southwest by Stephen PlogIn Search of the Old Ones by David  RobertsFinders Keepers by Craig ChildsSandstone Spine by David  Roberts
Utah Archaeology Books
91 books — 9 voters
The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. AuelSilverhair by Stephen BaxterBaby Bellaphante by F M Barrera11,000 Years Lost by Peni R. GriffinMik's Mammoth by Roy Gerrard
Woolly Mammoths in Fiction
68 books — 4 voters

The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives by Alan TurnerMammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids by Jordi AgustíSabertooth by Mauricio AntónDogs by Xiaoming WangThe Cave Bear Story by Björn Kurtén
Prehistoric Mammals in Nonfiction
41 books — 18 voters
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldT. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter ÁlvarezThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsTrilobite by Richard Fortey
Learn about prehistoric life
51 books — 46 voters


the migration patterns were the migration patterns solely of people of colour until 7000 years ago or later, when the first Caucasians appeared on earth, and the pigmentation of “white” skin only appeared 1000 years later.
L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism

Mary Renault
The finished shape of our fate, the line drawn round it. It is the task the gods allot us, and the share of glory they allow; the limits we must not pass; and our appointed end. Moira is all these.
Mary Renault, The King Must Die

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