prehistory

How To Use prehistory In A Sentence

• 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
• 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.
• The study of history and prehistory does not always march hand in hand with a cutting-edge infrastructure project. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• 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.
• This work looked at periods in prehistory when the Sahara region was green – covered with grassland. 2009 April 21 | Serendipity
• The study of submerged prehistory is an expanding area of maritime archaeology. Times, Sunday Times
• The altar, as in prehistory, is anywhere you kneel.
• 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.
• In various guises they have been central to the human condition since prehistory. Times, Sunday Times