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pretechnological

a. Prior to the advent of modern technology.

Usage examples of "pretechnological".

In fact, human society in pretechnological times was much more like that of the compassionate, communal and cultured Bushman hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert than the Fuegians Darwin, with some justification, derided.

This is quite characteristic of a society at this stage of development, pretechnological that is to say.