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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prehistoric \Pre'his*tor"ic\, adjective Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prehistoric
adjective
1: belonging to or existing in times before recorded history; "prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples" [syn: {prehistorical}]
2: of or relating to times before written history; "prehistoric archeology"
3: no longer fashionable; "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "prehistoric": aboriginal, ancestral, ancient, antediluvian, antepatriarchal, antiquated, atavistic, autochthonous, earliest, early, erstwhile, fore, former, fossil, humanoid, immemorial, late, old, old-fashioned, olden, once, onetime, passe, past, patriarchal, preadamite, preglacial, prehuman, previous, primal, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, prior, pristine, protohistoric, protohuman, quondam, recent, sometime, then
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PREHISTORIC, adjective Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
He lived in a period prehistoric, When all was absurd and phantasmagoric. Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded, Set down great events in succession and order, He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous In anything here but the lies that she threw at us. Orpheus Bowen
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