prehistory

There’s a convention of dating the beginning of history to the first writing and calling everything before that prehistory.

Also recall that as social, tribal animals, modern humans relied on aunts and grandmothers to relieve exhausted mothers for all of prehistory.

And a lot of human prehistory is various sorts of nomadic life.

Over most of human hunter-gatherer prehistory, the population was not generally resource-constrained.

And if you don't study the prehistory and mythology and archaeology of a region, how can you hope to make sense of language groupings and divisions.

Beer has been a mainstream vice since prehistory.

Guess what, 99.999% of getting funded happened in Earth's prehistory of 4.5 billion years, at any point during which things could have gone differently and precluded humanity and culture.

Another book of interest by Hyde is Trickster Makes This World, wherein you learn the hacker archetype - the giver of technology; the player of tricks - has been around since prehistory.

While there have been mega-floods in prehistory, there's a very strange tendency to try to pin particular events for the genesis (so to speak) of flood mythology, especially when cultures all over the world have flood myths.

On my part, as an amateur about these issues, it does seem plausible that human beings have a lot of capacity for peaceful cooperation, which could readily have been selected for through many forgotten events of human prehistory.

A dissertation, with (potentially) a lot more room to go into details, can serve both as a source of this information for external readers, as well as a convenient internal reference for people in the lab who need to dig up some details of their prehistory.

The original title of the article is "A Prehistory of Violence", which doesn't say much about the content.

DNA evidence can only tell so much because it only hints at the spread of technologies, languages, or the "Neolithic Package" of domestication practices and tools that revolutionized European prehistory.

That's one of the fun little oddities Gary Larson talks about in "The Prehistory of the Far Side", where syndication captioning errors led to a couple of swaps of Far Side and Dennis the Menace cartoons, with weird results.

The professor devoted a huge amount of time[1] to disproving the notion of the peaceful "noble savage" and assigned Keeley's War Before Civilization[2], which is, I gather, still one of the best accessible texts about war in prehistory.