Cryptic crossword clue
No contemporary writing about this period 10

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word PREHISTORY

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What does PREHISTORY mean?

PREHISTORY noun
  1. (properly) History before written records, inclusive of both
  2. Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
  3. (often as pre-history) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.

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