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What does prehistory mean?

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Noun
  1. (properly) History before written records, inclusive of both
    1. The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
    2. The study of those times.
  2. (humorous) Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
  3. (often as pre-history) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
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The busy prehistory is known rather than seen in the shadow remnants of dikes and earthworks.
It provides a critical genealogy, even prehistory, of the debates leading up to the problems of intermedia in the present.
The south coast of Peru is the region that much of Andean prehistory bases its archaeological chronology on, so this is not a minor issue.
Childe really saw that you couldn't write European prehistory on its own and in isolation.
Arte Povera's prehistory is thoroughly chronicled in the catalogue but only selectively represented in the exhibition.
Thus, the information in our genomes carries with it a record of our prehistory.

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