precontact

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Before contact was established (especially with an indigenous people).

   the precontact period

2. noun An instance of contacting somebody in advance.
3. verb To contact somebody in advance.

Similar words

preconquest precolonial preconquestual preconquestal precolumbian pre-colonial pre-columbian premissionary preconquered predomestic

Often followed by

times period population and native era culture indian past north