(a.) Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
Example Sentences:
(1) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(2) Trephination dates from prehistoric neolithic times (10,000-7000 B.C.)
(3) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
(4) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(5) These results suggest that Wilson bands are an indicator of the relative proportion of individuals who are high susceptibles in prehistoric populations.
(6) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
(7) Comparisons of these ancient Sri Lankans with other prehistoric skeletal series from South Asia and elsewhere support the hypothesis that muscular-skeletal robusticity was a significant physical adaptation of earlier hunting-foraging populations.
(8) In case of the boy from Basta 1, this would the earliest evidence for the occurrence of this type of sexual delinquency in prehistoric times.
(9) The possibility of obtaining information on growth and development from prehistoric and early historic skeletal remains of children and juveniles is discussed.
(10) Abraded grooves have been observed on the anterior teeth of all the adults in a small population of prehistoric California Indians.
(11) According to Chinese classical literature on materia medica, the early uses were limited to the parts of the plant which met the most obvious needs of the prehistorical people in their struggle for existence-food and pain reliever.
(12) This reduction in size is one of the most important criteria for distinguishing prehistoric domestic livestock from their wild forms.
(13) Reasons for the existing lack of anthropological data on the subject are suggested, and the potential usefulness of representative surveys of large samples of prehistoric populations is stressed.
(14) Samples of innominates from three prehistoric Amerindian populations were used.
(15) Within North American prehistoric Indian populations, increasing brachycephalization and the possible development of a larger, broader face are two structural trends that can be identified.
(16) This result is different than that in some other prehistoric native American populations, where tibia CSMI increases with age in both sexes.
(17) Our objective in this study was to determine whether the prevalences of periodontal diseases, coronal caries, and root caries for prehistoric inhabitants vary between geochemical regions of the state of Missouri.
(18) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
(19) The world's universities overflow with economic research proving beyond doubt that contemporary capitalist economies do not function as if their denizens were prehistoric humans trading nuts and berries at the edge of the forest – the great delusion of free market economics.
(20) The comparative analysis of parasitological findings illustrates the effects of changing subsistence strategies and varying life-style on prehistoric human parasitism.
Prehistory
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The estimation obtained for theta permit us to assert that the model describes the phenomenon of "socio-cultural selection" in prehistory.
(2) Much of the earlier work on the prehistory of Sudanese Nubia has emphasized discontinuity between early Nubian populations.
(3) The first phase, which belongs to the prehistory of Phlebology, includes two notable facts: the start of ambulatory compression in London around 1800, and the interest that the French school immediately showed in this discovery.
(4) A t some point in remote prehistory, roughly 12,000 years ago, a group of men and women – no more than half a dozen, scientists believe – crawled into the labyrinth of Rouffignac cavern in the Dordogne's Vézère valley.
(5) An ambitious project to showcase the prehistory of the south coast of England, famous for its marine fossils from ammonites to giant sea reptiles, has attracted support from David Attenborough and Eden Project founder Tim Smit.
(6) According to the model, the shape of the growth curves, the kinetics of substrate consumption and changes of intermediate concentration depend on culture prehistory and the nature of the intermediate regulatory function.
(7) to 500 A.D.) of Central California Prehistory is described in light of an extensive clinical literature.
(8) Two other hypotheses regarding the causes of the framentation have been raised: a substantial portion of the breakage in the Krapina collection is attributable to excavation damage; and the rest of the breakage is attributable to sedimentary pressure and to natural rock falls that occurred during the site's prehistory.
(9) The prehistory of cyclical development of corpus luteum goes back to early follicular phase.
(10) The second time you visit, without this ready-made exhilaration, you are more conscious of what the building contributes to its prehistory.
(11) "As with so many 'new trends', this one has a fairly distinguished prehistory," explains essayist and author Geoff Dyer .
(12) Unique aspects of the prehistory and current distribution of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans Peale) have been applied to the problem of determining the biogeographical origin of its parasites as found on 'exulans only' islands of New Zealand.
(13) To gain an understanding of helminth parasitism in prehistory on the Colorado Plateau of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, 319 coprolites from 5 archaeological sites were analyzed.
(14) Hysteresis of the stretch reflex led to uncertainty of the equilibrium value of the muscle length and the equilibrium length depended on the movement prehistory.
(15) More generally, with the availability of teeth from genetically homogeneous populations, studies of enamel hypoplasias in prehistory should provide a useful complement to research on this condition in contemporary peoples.
(16) The value of works of art lost to Britain Paintings, foreign £489m Paintings, British, modern £463m Drawings, prints, watercolours £187m Manuscripts, documents and archives £119m Oriental furniture, porcelain and works of art £59m Transport £58m Silver, metalwork and jewellery £49m Sculpture £48m Musical instruments £23m Paintings, portraits of British persons £21m Oriental antiquities £21m Furniture and woodwork £19m Middle East antiquities £19m Prehistory & Europe £18m Photographs £13m Books, maps etc £11m Egyptian antiquities £11m Tapestries, carpets etc £10m Pottery £5m Clocks and watches £5m Coins and medals £5m Scientific and mechanical material £2m Drawings: architechtural, engineering and scientific £2m
(17) Their systematic campaign seeks to take us back into prehistory, but they will not succeed.” The archaeologist and scholar, who held a diploma in history and education from the University of Damascus, published many books and scientific texts.
(18) Although Nei's standard genetic distance analysis demonstrates genetic similarity at the Gm and Km loci, the heterogeneity that does exist is consistent both with what is known about the prehistory of Native Americans and traditional cultural categories.
(19) If so, other oncogenes should be equally transposable to the "Ig hot spots" during the long series of cell divisions in the preneoplastic target cell population that characterizes the prehistory of both BL and MPC.
(20) Egyptian artefacts were, for Freud, links to the prehistory of the Jewish people; they also represent an era when maternal deities found their proper place in man's pantheon--an echo of Freud's prehistoric past.