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Prehistory

noun
1.
The time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word.  Synonym: prehistoric culture.






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"Prehistory" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Brythons, or of a Norse Viking . . . west into Anglia to appear once more as a Priestess of the Druids chaunting in a sacred grove . . . or as Boadicea—who knows! But no prose can regenerate that shadowy time. I see it—prehistory—as a swaying mass of ghostly multitudes, but always pressing on—on . . . as we shall appear, no doubt, ten thousand years hence if all histories are destroyed—as no doubt they will be. If I were an epic poet I might possibly find words and rhythm to fit that white vision, but it is wholly beyond ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton



Words linked to "Prehistory" :   time period, prehistoric, period, period of time, iron age, glacial epoch, glacial period, Stone Age, bronze age, ice age



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