What does prehistory mean in biblical times?

Answer 1

History is the study of written documents to discover information about an era. As we search back in time we come to a time before written documents existed. That is the era of Prehistory. We find out about how things were by digging in the dirt and putting clues together. Prehistory describes the era before history began.

Sometimes an era changes from Prehistorical to Historical. In Crete, Someone cracked Linear B Script. Prehistory became History. They know Linear A is Semitic but can not read it. Some day someone will crack it.

In the Americas a Russian cracked Mayan writing. Now we know the history of the Mayan Indians to about 300 B. C. Maybe someday someone will crack Inca Bead Writing.

Answer 2

It could mean the time before the birth of Jesus Christ(most likely), or the time before man was created.