predynastic

[ pree-dahy-nas-tik ]

adjective

of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.

Origin of predynastic

1895–1900; pre- + dynastic

The contracted bodies are skeletons, as in the case of most of the predynastic bodies.
History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery | L.W. King and H.R. Hall
Of these predynastic kingdoms we know very little, except from legendary sources.
History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery | L.W. King and H.R. Hall
There can be no doubt whatever that the predynastic boats were not seagoing galleys.
History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery | L.W. King and H.R. Hall
The plain square pit, like those in which the predynastic people were buried, is here the essential of the tomb.
History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12) | S. Rappoport
We know that similar microliths were used as arrow points in predynastic Egypt.
Men of the Old Stone Age | Henry Fairfield Osborn

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