Draft:Outline of prehistory

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to prehistory''':

What type of thing is prehistory?
Prehistory can be described as all of the following:


 * Time period – a discrete, quantified named block of time, created in order to facilitate the study and analysis of the past. The time period known as prehistory precedes history (time period with recorded events), that is, it is the time period for which there is no written record.

Fields that study prehistory

 * Cosmology –
 * Cosmogony –
 * Evolutionary history of life –
 * Paleontology – scientific study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments (their paleoecology).
 * Human evolution –
 * Human prehistory –
 * Archaeology –

Cosmological periods

 * Cosmological time periods
 * Logarithmic timeline
 * Formation and evolution of the Solar System

Geologic periods

 * Geologic time scale
 * Formation of the Earth
 * Age of the Earth

Human prehistory
Human prehistory (timeline)

Prehistory by region

 * Prehistoric Cyprus

Prehistoric Africa
Prehistoric Africa
 * Prehistoric North Africa
 * Prehistoric Egypt

Prehistoric Americas
Prehistoric Americas

Prehistoric Asia
Prehistoric Asia
 * Prehistoric East Asia
 * Prehistoric China
 * Prehistoric Hong Kong
 * Prehistoric Korea
 * Prehistoric South Asia
 * Prehistoric Southeast Asia
 * Prehistoric Indonesia
 * Prehistoric Malaysia
 * Prehistoric Thailand

Prehistoric Caucasus
Prehistoric Caucasus
 * Prehistoric Armenia
 * Prehistoric Georgia

Prehistoric Europe
Prehistoric Europe
 * Prehistoric Britain
 * Prehistoric Norfolk
 * Prehistoric Wales
 * Prehistoric Iberia
 * Prehistoric Portugal
 * Prehistoric Ireland
 * Prehistoric Italy
 * Prehistoric Scotland
 * Prehistoric Sweden

Prehistory by subject

 * Human evolution
 * Prehistoric technology

Prehistoric people

 * Australopithecus
 * Archaic humans
 * Homo antecessor
 * Homo erectus
 * Homo floresiensis
 * Homo habilis
 * Homo heidelbergensis
 * Homo naledi
 * Homo neanderthalensis
 * Homo sapiens
 * Homo sapiens idaltu
 * Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
 * Recent African origin of modern humans
 * Behavioral modernity

Historiography of prehistory

 * Main articles: Historiography and Historiography of prehistory

Prehistory organizations

 * International Institute for Prehistoric Research Cantabria
 * International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences

(Place these in the outline above)

 * A Prehistoric Tale
 * Agriculture in the prehistoric Southwest
 * All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
 * Architecture of Scotland in the Prehistoric era
 * Atlas of the Prehistoric World
 * Australian Aboriginal prehistoric sites
 * Caved In: Prehistoric Terror
 * Clemson Island Prehistoric District
 * Grear Prehistoric Village Site
 * Hartman Prehistoric Garden
 * His Prehistoric Past
 * Hyrax Hill Prehistoric Site and Museum
 * Japanese Prehistoric Art
 * Largest prehistoric animals
 * Late Quaternary prehistoric birds
 * Limeuil (prehistoric site)
 * List of locations in Prehistoric Park
 * List of prehistoric amphibians
 * List of prehistoric annelids
 * List of prehistoric artworks
 * List of prehistoric barnacles
 * List of prehistoric bony fish
 * List of prehistoric brittle stars
 * List of prehistoric bryozoans
 * List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
 * List of prehistoric chitons
 * List of prehistoric echinoderms
 * List of prehistoric echinoids
 * List of prehistoric foraminiferans
 * List of prehistoric hexacorals
 * List of prehistoric jawless fish
 * List of prehistoric lakes
 * List of prehistoric malacostracans
 * List of prehistoric mammals
 * List of prehistoric medusozoans
 * List of prehistoric octocorals
 * List of prehistoric ostracods
 * List of Prehistoric Park episodes
 * List of prehistoric sea cucumbers
 * List of prehistoric sites in Colorado
 * List of prehistoric sites in Morocco
 * List of prehistoric sponges
 * List of prehistoric starfish
 * List of prehistoric structures in Great Britain
 * List of prehistoric stylophorans
 * Lists of prehistoric fish
 * Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site
 * Marymoor Prehistoric Indian Site
 * National Geographic Prehistoric Mammals
 * Outline of prehistoric technology
 * Prehistoric Antiquities Museum of Thessaloniki
 * Prehistoric archaeology
 * Prehistoric art
 * Prehistoric beast
 * Prehistoric Beast
 * Prehistoric bird
 * Prehistoric demography
 * Prehistoric Digital Poetry
 * Prehistoric fiction
 * Prehistoric Hayseeds
 * Prehistoric Ice Man


 * Prehistoric insects
 * Prehistoric Irish battles
 * Prehistoric Journey: A History of Life on Earth
 * Prehistoric Knife Fight
 * Prehistoric Lepidoptera
 * Prehistoric Life (book)
 * Prehistoric mammal
 * Prehistoric man
 * Prehistoric medicine
 * Prehistoric Megastorms
 * Prehistoric music
 * Prehistoric numerals
 * Prehistoric Orkney
 * Prehistoric Park
 * Prehistoric Peeps
 * Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps
 * Prehistoric Pink
 * Prehistoric Planet


 * Prehistoric Predators
 * Prehistoric religion
 * Prehistoric reptile
 * Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of the Côa Valley


 * Prehistoric settlement of the British Isles
 * Prehistoric Shetland
 * Prehistoric sites in Serbia
 * Prehistoric Sounds
 * Prehistoric Southwestern Cultural Divisions
 * Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
 * Prehistoric tsunamis
 * Prehistoric warfare
 * Prehistoric Women
 * Prehistoric Women (1967 film)
 * Prehistoricisms
 * Quinebaug River Prehistoric Archeological District
 * Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe
 * Scottish art in the Prehistoric era
 * Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
 * Table of historic and prehistoric climate indicators
 * The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life
 * The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy
 * The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals
 * The Prehistoric Man Museum
 * The Prehistoric Society
 * The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life
 * Timeline of prehistoric Britain
 * Timeline of prehistoric Scotland
 * Tork: Prehistoric Punk
 * USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum
 * Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
 * Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
 * Walker Prehistoric Village Archeological Site
 * Women of the Prehistoric Planet
 * World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures