protohistory
noun
a branch of study concerned with the transition period between prehistory and the earliest recorded history.
protohistoric
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a word derived from
protohistory.
Example Sentences
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La Pérouse, Strait of, claimed as Russian boundary Law, in time of Ojin; criminal, protohistoric period; of Daiho; code of 1232 A.D.;
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
This practice was still continued in protohistoric times; Schliemann noticed it in the excavations he superintended at Mykenae, and Homer says that amongst the Lybians the dead were buried seated.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers
But 'dragons' proper have existed, and perhaps memories of these portents long lingered in the brain of protohistoric man.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
