How To Use Prehistory In A Sentence
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Under all these conditions, the strains had the same prehistory and, therefore, the same genetic constitution.
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Human prehistory is divided into three successive periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
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Hip-hop's prehistory offers a team of curators any number of potential entry points: African griots and other oral poetic traditions, the Beats, talking blues, Muhammad Ali trash-talk.
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Human prehistory is divided into three successive periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
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Our ancestors from times immemorial used this prehistory track as they travelled with their flocks and it is thought to have been the route taken by the early travellers to Stonehenge.
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It was a heady mixture, irresistible to those who wished to turn prehistory into a form of mystery play.
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As prehistory, these are typically based on sequences ranging from palaeolithic stone axes through bronze age pottery to iron age swords.
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Initiatives such as the Church Missionary Society belonged in a pattern of revival that forms a long prehistory to the tumults of the 1830s.
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In various guises they have been central to the human condition since prehistory.
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He earnestly wanted to apply these new scientific ideas to the study of human variation and human prehistory, and he set himself to learning more about them.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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Living on the Isle of Wight with a life-long interest in prehistory I have spent many hours field-walking and have a substantial collection of flint tools and flakes.
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Arte Povera's prehistory is thoroughly chronicled in the catalogue but only selectively represented in the exhibition.
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The book's author is a historian and geologist who writes of the prehistory of the area, its geologic formation, and its native inhabitants.
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My father was a student of what he called prehistory, but nothing to base it on except artifacts from the ancient ruins on the old civilization and the folk tales of the blacks.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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The earliest of seven main subdivisions of Andean prehistory, spanning the period 9000-1800 bc, embraces the time from the earliest human presence in the region down to the first use of ceramics.
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What must the car dealer have made of this client, a man from prehistory come to buy an automobile?
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Then it happened, and our tepid prehistory was, quite literally, forgotten beyond a lingering embarrassment at my own callow unresponsiveness.
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Archeological findings have placed knowledge of Iranian prehistory at middle Paleolithic times.
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Many archaeologists vigorously deny that cannibalism has ever been normal practice in Britain or elsewhere, in prehistory or at any more recent period.
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If you have the slightest interest in prehistory and the development of mankind on a global stage, this is the book for you.
Reader reviews of Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond.
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Botanical knowledge is (and would have been in prehistory) greatest among the women who gather, collect, harvest, and process plant resources.
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Up to the age of 14, children in Britain are taught the basics of archaeology and history from prehistory to the recent past - and this now includes much more archaeology to enrich and enliven the story than there was 20 years ago.
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Covering the history of the Slavic people from prehistory to the nineteenth century, they represented Mucha's hopes and dreams for his homeland.
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These climate changes continued throughout prehistory.
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I studied prehistory and archaeology at Sheffield University, and then specialised in scientific methods in archaeology at Bradford.
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These findings, demonstrating that early South American prehistory predates Clovis culture, have led to the decline of the Clovis paradigm.
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But the word Neolithic (“New Stone Age”), as well as the term for the earlier and much longer epoch of human prehistory, the Paleolithic (“Old Stone Age”), was coined during the nineteenth century by John Lubbock, also known as Lord Avebury.
The Goddess and the Bull
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We can ascertain that deer has been eaten by man since prehistory.
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These climate changes continued throughout prehistory.
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The story of human prehistory is not special in this regard.
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Human prehistory is divided into three successive periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
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Not many appear to care for world prehistory wherever granite is available for quarrying.
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The prehistory of this form is obscure, and Stesichorus seems to have no successors: perhaps this was a unique attempt to transfuse epic material into a new medium.
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Human prehistory is such a vast topic that it has proved necessary to divide it up into a series of shorter, more manageable periods.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Many vertebrae were cleaved, suggesting animals had been divided into left and right portions, an unusual butchery practice for this period of prehistory, perhaps for feasting.
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What must the car dealer have made of this client,(sentence dictionary) a man from prehistory come to buy an automobile?
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Archaeologists use the terms Paleolithic and Neolithic to refer to earlier and later epochs of human prehistory, which can be distinguished by the types of artifacts they left behind, especially the types of stone tools they used.
The Goddess and the Bull
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Another 1970s strategy of empowerment was to turn to the misty past and recast prehistory in a hopeful light: perhaps a Neolithic matriarchy predated the Iron Age patriarchy.
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What must the car dealer have made of this client, a man from prehistory come to buy an automobile?
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Power chose a representative sample of artworks that not only illustrates certain points in the text, but also exemplifies the exquisiteness of southeastern Indian art throughout prehistory.
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Thus what had been an ordinary rubbish pit in prehistory has now become - for the modern prehistorian - a meaningful layout of objects.
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Historical profile from prehistory through revival. Contains glossary, links and a comprehensive bibliography.
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For instance, in the prehistory of Modern Persian, apocope introduced word-final clusters of obstruent or nasal + r.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Not only in the earliest periods but throughout prehistory, humans disposed of the bodies of their loved ones by a variety of means, most of which have left no traces and can be only be guessed at by scholars today.
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A socialistic parable set in prehistory, "The Strength of the Strong" (Hampton's Magazine, March, 1911), was composed in January, 1909, in Tasmania.
“Some day, all the fools will be dead....”
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Exhibit the prehistory , culture history, and natural sciences.
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But behind these familiar figures is an unknown Ganesha, whose origins lie deep in the subcontinent's prehistory.
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We can learn together some prehistory - and much else besides.
Somewhere East of Life
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Claiming that going barefoot is better because our ancestors did it is as valid as saying that wearing shoes is better because we've been doing it since prehistory.
- Boing Boing
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While shorter, with fewer stories than, say, The Living Dead — this is 20 stories to TLD’s 34 — this is also an assemblage of new stories that follow the walking dead all through the ages, beginning in prehistory and taking us up to the time of Thomas Edison.
Book Review – History is Dead: A Zombie Anthology
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After studying archaeology at Cambridge University, he became curator of prehistory at the Museum of London.
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Research on early medieval Italy based on written sources therefore shifted to later periods, taking the innovatory character of the Lombard era for granted and of relevance only for tracing the prehistory of later phenomena.
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Human prehistory is divided into three successive periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
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Childe really saw that you couldn't write European prehistory on its own and in isolation.
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Living on the Isle of Wight with a life-long interest in prehistory I have spent many hours field-walking and have a substantial collection of flint tools and flakes.
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It provides a critical genealogy, even prehistory, of the debates leading up to the problems of intermedia in the present.
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There is a chapter on “Democracy Before America” with a helpful timeline that begins in prehistory with the first two-party system formed by the hunters and the gatherers.
America! America! « So Many Books
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We are acutely sensitive to sedimentary layering, perhaps because of our origins in prehistory?
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In various guises they have been central to the human condition since prehistory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The south coast of Peru is the region that much of Andean prehistory bases its archaeological chronology on, so this is not a minor issue.
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The altar, as in prehistory, is anywhere you kneel.
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The study of submerged prehistory is an expanding area of maritime archaeology.
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This work looked at periods in prehistory when the Sahara region was green – covered with grassland.
2009 April 21 | Serendipity
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A Cotswold-Severn tomb is one of the classic sites of British prehistory, and to have an opportunity to excavate one completely was such a treat, and a privilege.
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The eminence of these works, in particular the Almagest, had been evident already to Ptolemy's contemporaries. this caused an almost total obliteration of the prehistory of the Ptolemaic astronomy.
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The study of history and prehistory does not always march hand in hand with a cutting-edge infrastructure project.
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Fire, the most basic source of radiant heat, has been known to man for many thousands of years, and was probably used to roast meat spitted on green wood far back into prehistory.
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Thus, the information in our genomes carries with it a record of our prehistory.
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Bromhall's next foray into the borderlands of science concerns the infamous Mother Goddess myth that all societies were supposedly female-fixated in prehistory.
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Exhibit the culture of the people of Western Kenya , prehistory, and natural history.
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Human prehistory is divided into three successive periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
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The alien host, the spongy nebulae, the zip and twang of the photon torpedo, the bluster of the starship captain at his bridge — these, according to Hubbard, were not the idle tropes of pulp-fictioneers and drugged-up sci-fi hacks but the stuff of deepest prehistory, somber emanations from the memory of the species.
Lost In Space
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Excavations in 1990 added weight to the idea that the horse dates from later prehistory as deposits of fine silt in the beak were scientifically dated to the early first millennium BC.
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As prehistory, these are typically based on sequences ranging from palaeolithic stone axes through bronze age pottery to iron age swords.
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Prehistory spans an almost inconceivably long time, perhaps as much as half a million years.
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The temporal delimitation suggests an arbitrary empiricism reluctant to address either the agony of contemporaneity, or the pathological prehistory of modernity.
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The wheel, the horse, the camel, and roads facilitated huge improvements in the speed and carrying capacity (though not the range) of overland transport when compared with the foot traffic of prehistory.
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The art of the goldsmith has its roots in prehistory, developed to a sophisticated degree at a time when visual art amounted to little more than primitive cave paintings.
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Its name commemorates Voli Voli Cave (one of the discovery sites) and Atholl Anderson, well known for his many contributions to the prehistory and palaeoecology of south-west Pacific islands.
The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific
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For instance, in the prehistory of Modern Persian, apocope introduced word-final clusters of obstruent or nasal + r.
Pre-IE Syncope and possibly expanding the Metathesis rule
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In various guises they have been central to the human condition since prehistory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here the old idea of prehistory, that time ‘before human beings could record their present or their past’ has no useful purpose.
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The busy prehistory is known rather than seen in the shadow remnants of dikes and earthworks.
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His work reflects his interest in history and prehistory.
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Like them, it seems certain that she would not have survived had she been born at any other point in human history or prehistory.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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Born and raised amongst the rich geological history of Ontario, Canada, Laura has held a lifelong interest in prehistory and how past peoples adapted to their environments.
Ice Stories
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A given social episode or condition may be treated in the most detailed and compelling manner, but its prehistory is nearly always left out of the picture.
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Prehistory, like recreational canoeing, is a regional trademark.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus what had been an ordinary rubbish pit in prehistory has now become - for the modern prehistorian - a meaningful layout of objects.
