<s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 6 topics, 16 evergreens, 1 source</em></s> #### <s class="topic-title">[[prehistory]]</s> > [!wikipedia] [prehistory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory) > > Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human [[history]] between the use of the first stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing systems appeared c. 5000 years ago and it took thousands of years for writing systems to be widely adopted. > > In some human cultures, writing systems were not used until the nineteenth century and, in a few, are not even used until the present. The end of prehistory therefore came at very different dates in different places, and the term is less often used in discussing societies where prehistory ended relatively recently. > ##### ^dataviews > [!dataview]+ Related unlinked notes > > - [[Hunter-gathers were capable of mass cooperation]] > - [[Cooking allowed prehistoric humans to spend less energy on digesting]] > - [[Early hunting techniques lead to domesticating farm animals]] > - [[Farming domesticated humans]] > - [[Fishing villages are likely the most ancient human settlement]] > - [[Foragers suffered less from disease]] > - [[Graves of ancient mammoth-hunters were vastly decorated]] > - [[Harrapan cities had proto-showers]] > - [[Human settlement allowed for social order to rapidly evolve]] > - [[Hunter-gatherer societies were very diverse]] > - [[Stone age tools were primarily wooden]] > - [[Teenage boys are responsible for much of cave art]] > - [[The Inca empire was maintained without a full script writing system]] > - [[The advent of farming lead to increased prevalence of anxiety]] > - [[Water, drainage, and bathing held a religious significance Harappan civilization]] > - [[We have been domesticating dogs for 15,000 years]] > - [[Were hunter-gatherer societies egalitarian]] > [!dataview]- Other unlinked mentions > > - [[video - What was the Indus Valley Civilization]] > - [[topics]] > - [[foraging]] > - [[polytheism]] > - [[The Agricultural Revolution]]