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What is prehistory?
Prehistory means 'before history', and we use the term to refer to the time before writing was invented. It was only when people started to write things down about 5,000 years ago that history could be recorded. A great deal of what we know about prehistory comes from fossils.
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Fossils tell us a great deal about prehistory
 
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