English Explanatory Dictionary

protohistory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

protohistory protohistories

Etymology

From proto- + history.

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