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proto-historic
proto-historic adj.
Brit. 
/ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)hɪˈstɒrɪk/
, /ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)hɪˈstɒrɪk/U.S. /ˌproʊdoʊhɪˈstɔrɪk/
of or relating to proto-history; relating to the earliest period of a society or culture for which historical records are available./ˌproʊdoʊhɪˈstɔrɪk/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [adjective] > of types of history
archaeological1714
world-historical1822
mytho-historic1831
world-historic1853
proto-historic1858
museographic1860
Assyriological1881
historionomical1881
psychohistorical1895
theoretico-historical1900
proto-historical1909
museographical1935
comparative-historical1937
Warburgian1956
Viconian1957
mytho-historical1977
1858 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery I. ii. vi. 383 In the workshop of a sculptor may, perhaps, be beheld the semi-mythic labours of Dædalus; but on the whole, few, very few, subjects of the proto-historic epoch appear.
1869 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 1 324 It does not give us an instrument sufficiently safe to use in the early historic, still less in the proto-historic periods.
1874 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 148 Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology, and Archaeology.
1954 M. Wheeler Archaeol. from Earth x. 118 The vista of a formative phase of protohistoric Britain began to unroll itself.
2002 Jrnl. Field Archaeol. 29 235/2 There is little discussion in this volume of later pre- and proto-historic periods.
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