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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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I studied prehistory and archaeology at Sheffield University, and then specialised in scientific methods in archaeology at Bradford.
The busy prehistory is known rather than seen in the shadow remnants of dikes and earthworks.
Not many appear to care for world prehistory wherever granite is available for quarrying.
Arte Povera's prehistory is thoroughly chronicled in the catalogue but only selectively represented in the exhibition.
Archeological findings have placed knowledge of Iranian prehistory at middle Paleolithic times.
Childe really saw that you couldn't write European prehistory on its own and in isolation.

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