Pre-historic

A term applied by some Egypt ologists to all objects which they believe to be anterior to the 1st Dynasty. The reasons for considering them to be of this remote period are hardly sufficiently cogent at present to permit of this definition being accepted in all cases. It must be remembered, that the dynastic Egyptians were not aboriginal, and that traces of what were in all probability the native races survived until long after the commencement of the Pharaonic period. It is therefore more than probable that many of the so-called pre-historic objects belong not to the ante-Pharaonic, but to the aboriginal inhabitants of the country.