Wiktionary
precivilization
n. The time prior to civilization.
Usage examples of "precivilization".
They had reverted to precivilization food-gathering stage, and had the planet rather than the ship been found first, it might have started another of those stories about a breed of humans not derived from old Terra.
So far as I recall only precivilization Eskimos were ever this naive-and they were so remote from the rest of us that they almost qualified as 'Men from Mars' themselves.
So far as I recall only precivilization Eskimos were ever this na‹ve - and they were so remote from the rest of us that they almost qualified as ‘Men from Mars’ themselves.