prehistoric culture
Pre-literate human civilization
Prehistoric culture refers to a human society and its way of life from before written records existed.
Archaeologists reconstruct prehistoric cultures through material remains—tools, pottery, burial sites, cave paintings.
The term often appears in discussions of Stone Age peoples, early agricultural communities, or any civilization known only through artifacts rather than texts: The prehistoric culture of the region left behind elaborate stone monuments.
- stone toolsShaped rocks for tasks
- hand axePrimitive stone cutting tool
- tribesAncestral social groups
- tribal elderSenior community authority figure
- fireCombustion with flames
rock shelter · ice age · totemism · fertility rites · foraging · trade networks · hide · shamanism · domestication · burial rituals · cosmology · cave art · pottery · ancestor worship · sacred objects · ritual dance · clans · animism
prehistoric cultureindustrial society
Civilization centered on manufacturing
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