The Holocene geological epoch, beginning 11,700 years Before Present (Ist January 1950) encompasses all of human history and therefore is the main epoch for Time Patrol activity. However, this series of posts addresses prehistorical activities.
By 43 AD, the Patrol's pre-Polynesian Hawaiian resort had existed for an unspecified number of millennia.
In 1765 BC, there is a Patrol base in a secret vault beneath Hammurabi's Babylon. The director:
"...arranged for his guests to tour the city, properly disguised and under close guidance" (ST, p. 282).
Specialist Keith Denison spends months with a pastoral Aryan tribe, then reports to Babylon base after leaving his horses at the Patrol ranch in North America in 15, 926 BC, thus in the preceding Pleistocene epoch.
And, unless I have missed anything, that exhausts our information about the Time Patrol in prehistory. Manson Everard tells Carl Farness:
"'...I have kicked around history, prehistory and even posthistory, quite a lot.'" (TP, p. 386)
Posthistory? We only ever see Everard operating in the past. This series is historical, and occasionally prehistorical, but not futuristic, sf. Farness goes to 2319 once, and that is a surprise, but we never see anything that could be described as "posthistorical." That would be the Danellian era? If Everard has been then even once, then we would like to know about it.
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