Prehistory
noun
The period of time before written records.
The study of prehistory requires knowledge of archeology and anthropology.
Often appears as...
- study of prehistory
- prehistory period
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Academic
noun
A condition or period that comes before something.
The company's prehistory is largely unknown as it was started over a hundred years ago.
Often appears as...
- company's prehistory
- organization's prehistory
noun
The period of time before written records.
The study of prehistory requires knowledge of archeology and anthropology.
Often appears as...
- study of prehistory
- prehistory period
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A condition or period that comes before something.
The company's prehistory is largely unknown as it was started over a hundred years ago.
Often appears as...
- company's prehistory
- organization's prehistory
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Time Before Writing
Refers specifically to times before humans could record events in writing.
Many artifacts from prehistory provide clues about early human life.
Pro Tip 2/3No Exact Dates
Events in prehistory can't be dated precisely as there are no written records.
The exact timeline of prehistoric cultures is often debated by scholars.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaeology Based
Prehistory is studied through physical evidence, like fossils and tools, not books.
Archaeologists interpret prehistory from ancient ruins and relics.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Before Writing
Refers specifically to times before humans could record events in writing.
Many artifacts from prehistory provide clues about early human life.
Pro Tip 2/3No Exact Dates
Events in prehistory can't be dated precisely as there are no written records.
The exact timeline of prehistoric cultures is often debated by scholars.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaeology Based
Prehistory is studied through physical evidence, like fossils and tools, not books.
Archaeologists interpret prehistory from ancient ruins and relics.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Before Writing
Refers specifically to times before humans could record events in writing.
Many artifacts from prehistory provide clues about early human life.
Pro Tip 2/3No Exact Dates
Events in prehistory can't be dated precisely as there are no written records.
The exact timeline of prehistoric cultures is often debated by scholars.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaeology Based
Prehistory is studied through physical evidence, like fossils and tools, not books.
Archaeologists interpret prehistory from ancient ruins and relics.
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
major trade corridor for at least fourteen hundred years or so but it's quite clear that there's an antiquity here that goes well beyond that that is other projects other ideas had been proposed to suggest that that this region is not simply a relatively recent addition to prehistory but in fact has some very substantial antiquity that
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Are we born to run? -...
as well as they did as teenagers so you have these three mysteries is there one kind of piece in the puzzle which might wrap all these things up you gotta be really careful anytime someone looks back in prehistory and tries to give you some sort of global answer because it being prehistory you know you can say
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Are we born to run? PIPE...
where geriatrics are performing as well as they did as teenagers. So you have these three mysteries. Is there one piece in the puzzle which might wrap all these things up? You've got to be careful anytime someone looks back in prehistory and tries to give you a global answer because,
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Mapping wilderness PIPE...
wilderness cannot be restored or recreated only destroyed we are just about to lose our last glimpses into prehistory that connect us to Eternity and remember a time before modern man every year we pole ourselves across the
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Ancient Astronaut Theory...
extraterrestrials visited earth in the remote past so why do we think it's even remotely possible that people of prehistory were visited by aliens because ancient texts from cultures around the world speak of mysterious
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When will the next mass...
Within a short time span, three-quarters of the world's species disappeared forever, and the giant dinosaurs, flying pterosaurs, shelled squids, and marine reptiles that had flourished for ages faded into prehistory.
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A Darwinian theory of...
where we became fully human, but also by the social situations in which we evolved. This reverse engineering can also enlist help from the human record preserved in prehistory.
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Are we sexual omnivores?...
but it's not who you are. How is that different from the talk you gave? Well first of all, the evidence for high levels of violence in prehistory is very debatable.
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Bruce Schneier: The...
and not the reality. Now, most of the time, that works. Most of the time, feeling and reality are the same. Certainly that's true for most of human prehistory.
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Dogs: (Prehistoric)...
there are more dog burials in prehistory than there are burials of any other animals including cats for example or horses dogs seem to have a very special
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
major trade corridor for at least fourteen hundred years or so but it's quite clear that there's an antiquity here that goes well beyond that that is other projects other ideas had been proposed to suggest that that this region is not simply a relatively recent addition to prehistory but in fact has some very substantial antiquity that
Video examples
Are we born to run? -...
as well as they did as teenagers so you have these three mysteries is there one kind of piece in the puzzle which might wrap all these things up you gotta be really careful anytime someone looks back in prehistory and tries to give you some sort of global answer because it being prehistory you know you can say
Video examples
Are we born to run? PIPE...
where geriatrics are performing as well as they did as teenagers. So you have these three mysteries. Is there one piece in the puzzle which might wrap all these things up? You've got to be careful anytime someone looks back in prehistory and tries to give you a global answer because,
Video examples
Mapping wilderness PIPE...
wilderness cannot be restored or recreated only destroyed we are just about to lose our last glimpses into prehistory that connect us to Eternity and remember a time before modern man every year we pole ourselves across the
Video examples
Ancient Astronaut Theory...
extraterrestrials visited earth in the remote past so why do we think it's even remotely possible that people of prehistory were visited by aliens because ancient texts from cultures around the world speak of mysterious
Video examples
When will the next mass...
Within a short time span, three-quarters of the world's species disappeared forever, and the giant dinosaurs, flying pterosaurs, shelled squids, and marine reptiles that had flourished for ages faded into prehistory.
Video examples
A Darwinian theory of...
where we became fully human, but also by the social situations in which we evolved. This reverse engineering can also enlist help from the human record preserved in prehistory.
Video examples
Are we sexual omnivores?...
but it's not who you are. How is that different from the talk you gave? Well first of all, the evidence for high levels of violence in prehistory is very debatable.
Video examples
Bruce Schneier: The...
and not the reality. Now, most of the time, that works. Most of the time, feeling and reality are the same. Certainly that's true for most of human prehistory.
Video examples
Dogs: (Prehistoric)...
there are more dog burials in prehistory than there are burials of any other animals including cats for example or horses dogs seem to have a very special
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology.
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Peter Thiel
American Businessman
Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.
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Jean M. Auel
American Writer
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
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Alice Roberts
English Scientist
I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe.
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David Remnick
American Journalist
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.
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Peter Jackson
New Zealander Director
The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.
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Alice Miller
Swiss Psychologist
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
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Louis Leakey
British Scientist
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
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Donald Johanson
American Scientist
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.
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Louis Leakey
British Scientist
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology.
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Peter Thiel
American Businessman
Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.
Quote examples
Jean M. Auel
American Writer
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
Quote examples
Alice Roberts
English Scientist
I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe.
Quote examples
David Remnick
American Journalist
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.
Quote examples
Peter Jackson
New Zealander Director
The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.
Quote examples
Alice Miller
Swiss Psychologist
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
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Louis Leakey
British Scientist
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
Quote examples
Donald Johanson
American Scientist
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.
Quote examples
Louis Leakey
British Scientist
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
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