Homework Help: history

Posted by Daniel on Monday, April 9, 2007 at 6:47pm.

why are the early groups of Native Americans called prehistoric?

They are called prehistoric because the early groups of Native Americans didn't have a written language. History is written -- so anything that happens that is before the use of writing is prehistoric (before written history).

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