Prehistory in a sentence

History main Prehistory, "Dark Age" and Archaic period The prehistory of Sparta is difficult to reconstruct because the literary evidence is far removed in time from the events it describes and is also distorted by oral tradition.

Whether this was a long-standing belief or a relatively new one has long been the subject of inconclusive scholarly debate about the prehistory of the sources of the Tanakh and about the prehistory of Israelite religion.

According to the research team, which included experts from Durham University in the United Kingdom and the Leibniz Center for Archaeology in Germany, the engravings are the earliest known depictions of fishing with nets or traps in European prehistory.

In the absence of “big” supermarkets, the local IGA is outstanding and he prehistory exhibits of the Umoona Museum are a tribute to the outreach efforts of the South Australian Museum.

A new study says the time has arrived: a megadrought as bad or worse than anything even from known prehistory is very likely in progress, and warming climate is playing a key role.

The word “prehistory” was coined by archaeologists around 1834, and by the 1860s, Europeans had grown enraptured by floppy-haired hominids, galumphing dinosaurs and rocks from a time before Homo sapiens.

Three major movements of people, it now seems clear, shaped the course of European prehistory.

It is a narrative as old as prehistory, and as epochal as the death of a Jew on the Golgotha almost two thousand years ago.

It would be better to compare the ancient rates to later populations in prehistory or early historic populations, she says, but unfortunately those data don’t exist.

Proving that a site is related to a past tsunami could lead to a fundamental rewrite of how the coastal human settlement is studied in prehistory.

The work in his lab has reshaped our understanding of human prehistory.

Afghanistan seems in prehistory, as well as in ancient and modern times, to have been connected by culture and trade with the neighbouring regions.

After 1945, the so-called "autochthonous" or "aboriginal" school of Polish prehistory received official backing in Poland and a considerable degree of popular support.

A history of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Vol. 1: Inner Eurasia from prehistory to the Mongol Empire.

A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present (2nd ed 2000) * Bridenthal, Renate, et al. eds.

Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture (1916), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

Andronov, Mikhail S. (1971), "Comparative Studies on the Nature of Dravidian-Uralian Parallels: A Peep into the Prehistory of Language Families".

Animal burials date back to prehistory with examples emerging from the Mesolithic period.

Archeological evidence has demonstrated that the cultural continuity is unbroken from prehistory to the present.

Archeologists in Niger have much work to do, with little known of the prehistory of the societies that inhabited the south, the home of the vast majority of modern Nigeriens.