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proto-historian
proto-historian n.
Brit. 
/ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)hɪˈstɔːrɪən/
, /ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)hɪˈstɔːrɪən/U.S. /ˌproʊdoʊhɪˈstɔriən/
†(a) (in form prothistorian) the earliest or original historian (obsolete rare); (b) an expert in or student of proto-history./ˌproʊdoʊhɪˈstɔriən/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > branches or types of history > student or supporter of
archaeologist1656
archaeologian1795
archaeologer1828
medievalist1855
Assyriologist1865
Hibernologista1869
Assyriologue1880
Sumerologist1888
Byzantinist1892
revisionist1925
prehistorian1936
Hittitologist1948
proto-historian1949
Islamicist1951
1647 M. Hudson Divine Right Govt. i. viii. 63 All Histories and Chronicles..since Moses the Prothistorian of the world.
1949 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 15 196 That difficult problem so often shirked by prehistorian and proto-historian—the mechanics of cultural diffusion.
1994 Amer. Jrnl. Archeol. 98 580/1 Classical archeologists will certainly profit from the diverse approaches that prehistorians and protohistorians apply here to the analysis of archeological contexts.
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