Associations to the word «Prehistory»

Wiktionary

PREHISTORY, noun. The history of human culture prior to written records.
PREHISTORY, noun. The history of the events that led up to something (e.g. a crisis, a reconciliation, etc).

Dictionary definition

PREHISTORY, noun. The time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope