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proto-history
proto-history n.
Brit. 
/ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ri/
, /ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ri/U.S. /ˌproʊdoʊˈhɪst(ə)ri/
the history of the earliest times; the period during which historical records first become available; the branch of knowledge that deals with this./ˌproʊdoʊˈhɪst(ə)ri/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > branches or types of history
ancient history1566
church story1581
archaeology1607
church history1609
local history1615
mythistory1731
human story1753
intellectual history1755
oral history1827
Assyriology1828
world history1833
hierologya1848
meta-history1854
Hibernologya1869
prehistory1871
proto-history1876
prehistorics1879
earth history1880
Sumerology1897
historiometry1909
black history1920
herstory1932
ethnohistory1938
meta-history1946
Annales1952
Hittitology1952
revisionism1965
longue durée1968
Warburgianism1977
1876 Harper's Mag. Jan. 305/1 In all respects the Congress and the Exposition attained the most satisfactory results in anthropology, ethnology, and protohistory.
1896 Science 25 Dec. 936 The light their solution would throw on proto-history.
1947 H. C. E. Zacharias (title) Proto-history. An explicative account of the development of human thought from Palaeolithic times to the Persian monarchy.
1998 D. Bellos et al. tr. G. Ifrah Universal Hist. Numbers viii. 79/1 We are still in the ‘prehistory’, or rather the ‘protohistory’, of the development of writing (that is, in the pictographic stage).
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