protohistoric

English

Etymology

From proto- +‎ historic.

Adjective

protohistoric (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to protohistory.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 112 footnote:

     "The Arab al-Arabá" (or al-Aribah, or al-Urubíyat) are the autochthones, pre-historic, proto-historic and extinct tribes.