Medicines and drugs. History - prehistoric medicine. The history of medicine 2. Page 2 of 8 'Prehistory' means 'before written records'. We have no written evidence about how people lived at this time, the diseases they suffered from or how they treated illnesses and injuries.
Archaeologists study prehistoric sites.
They hope to find the remains of buildings, tools and dead bodies. All these things can give us clues about how people lived. This process is called trepannation .