prehistoric culture

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prehistoric culture - the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written wordprehistoryperiod, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"Bronze Age - (archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weaponsIron Age - (archeology) the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weaponsStone Age - (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implementsglacial epoch, glacial period, ice age - any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface; "the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene"