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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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Hunted (The Deadlands #1)
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life (DK Children's Anthologies)
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
Survival (The Deadlands #3)
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
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)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The Inheritors

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

Cynthia Barnett
The water vapor accumulated in the upper atmosphere for so long that when the surface finally cooled enough for the rains to touch down, they poured in catastrophic torrents for thousands of years.
Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

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