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Protohistory

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The period between prehistory and history, during which a culture or civilization has not yet developed writing, but other cultures have already noted its existence in their own writings. countable, uncountable

    "And at all times, now as in proto-history, the membrum virile is the symbol of creation, the ultimate basis and source of life."

  2. 2
    the study of humans prior to the invention of writing wordnet

Etymology

From proto- + history.

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