log insign up- relating to or denoting the period before written records
The prehistoric era took place before the invention of writing and includes the periods of the Stone Age and the Bronze Age.
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The word ‘prehistoric‘ is derived from the Latin word ‘prae‘ meaning ‘before‘ and ‘historia‘ meaning ‘history‘.