preˈhistory

That was before Twitter and Facebook, of course, and so belongs to pre-history.

It is of great importance in the history of transportation from its use in pre-history to its use in the world today.

At the back of that, again, beyond the point at which written records are of any avail at all, comes pre-history.

They do not, however, give a history of life before man, nor very much of human pre-history.

This first formation constitutes what we may call pre-history.

As far as they know, they are an indigenous race; they have a long pre-history of stone-age savagery.