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prehistory

[pree-his-tuh-ree, -his-tree] / priˈhɪs tə ri, -ˈhɪs tri /






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Overall, the findings suggest that relationships between humans and wolves in prehistory were far more varied than once thought.

From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2025

Readers young and old will be treated to a host of information, from established details to new discoveries, from prehistory to the present.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Al-Shamahi takes her story up to the invention of writing, where prehistory may be said to end.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

For prehistory fans, the Miocene, with its fantastic mammal life, is an immensely attractive period.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025

One of the biggest gaps in GGS’s geographic coverage involved Japan, about whose prehistory I had little to say in 1996.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond