PROTOHISTORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protohistory mean? 

• PROTOHISTORY (noun)
  The noun PROTOHISTORY has 1 sense:

1. the study humans prior to the invention of writing

  Familiarity information: PROTOHISTORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTOHISTORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The study humans prior to the invention of writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

protoanthropology; protohistory

Hypernyms ("protohistory" is a kind of...):

archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protohistory"):

protoarchaeology; protoarcheology (the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils)