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
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Stone Lands: A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
The Other Ancient Civilisations: Decoding Archaeology’s Less Celebrated Cultures (History Gifts, Ancient World History)
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
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
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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 Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Inheritors
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelThe Valley of Horses by Jean M. AuelThe Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. AuelThe Plains of Passage by Jean M. AuelThe Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
Best Pre-History Fiction
201 books — 379 voters
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
The Human Animal
143 books — 101 voters

Sam's Journey to Dinosaur World. Sam's Adventures by Dmytro MorozThe Adventures of Park Ranger Brock Cliffhanger & His Jr. Par... by Mark VillarealSatya's dinosaur safari by Tanuja HardageriDinosaur Island Adventure by Samuel DenHartog150 Facts About Dinosaurs. Dinosaur books for kids. Fun facts... by A. Arter
Shitty AI-generated dinosaur books
101 books — 2 voters
East Wind by Pearl S. BuckKing Solomon's Mines by H. Rider HaggardThe Way of the Shaman by Michael HarnerSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Young Adult Travel Novels
4 books — 1 voter


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

Mary Renault
The finished shape of our fate, the line drawn round it. It is the task the gods allot us, and the share of glory they allow; the limits we must not pass; and our appointed end. Moira is all these.
Mary Renault, The King Must Die

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