Relating to the time period immediately before recorded history, or before historical records were kept.
From 'ante-' (before) combined with 'historic' (having recorded history), describing the era just preceding written documentation.
Antehistoric is the time when humans were making the biggest discoveries—fire, agriculture, writing—but we barely know about them because they happened before anyone wrote it down.
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