| 单词 | prehistory |
| 释义 | prehistory (once / 2076 pages) n Prehistory refers to the period of time before civilization and writing. We don't know a lot about prehistory. Since pre means "before," and history is the record of human events, prehistory refers to the time before human civilization developed and started writing things down. Scientists often speculate about what happened in prehistory, which is also known as prehistoric times. When did spoken language develop? What was the first tool? What were families like? Scientists study fossils and artifacts to help them theorize about prehistory, because people weren’t writing things down during that time. WORD FAMILYprehistory: prehistoric+/historian: historians/historical: ahistorical, historically, historicalness, prehistorical/history: historian, historic, historical, historicism, histories, prehistory/prehistoric: prehistorically USAGE EXAMPLESToday's archaeologists fear a different oblivion—that Greenland's prehistory will be lost unless it is quickly unearthed. Science Magazine(Nov 10, 2016) Gradually you claw your way out of prehistory all the way, almost inevitably, to the space age. Slate(Nov 10, 2016) “Everything inside the cave remains as the humans during prehistory left it there, it is like a closed box,” said Camarós. The Guardian(Oct 26, 2016) n the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word Syn|Hyper prehistoric culture period, period of time, time period an amount of time |
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