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• Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.From the entry tool
• The Yellow Emperor was perhaps euhemerized from a prehistoric tribal leader.From the entry euhemerize
• A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.From the entry feature
• Archeophytes are often known from archeological evidence to have been present in prehistoric times.2009, P. Pyšek, D. M. Richardson, “Invasive Plants”, in Sven Erik Jørgensen, editor, Applications in Ecological Engineering, Amsterdam…. From the entry archaeophyte
• Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as a 'signature'.2008, Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, Biometric System and Data Analysis. From the entry identifier
• Kylies were used by prehistoric people in all parts of the world.2001, Jacqueline L. Longe, How Products Are Made, page 55. From the entry kylie
• Archaeological digs have shown that Cheung Chau, like Lamma and Lantau, was inhabited in prehistoric times.1986, Carol Clewlow, Hong Kong, Macau & Canton: A Travel Survival Kit, 4th edition, Lonely Planet Publications, page 111. From the entry Lantau
• A prehistoric ridgeway cuts across the parish, which contains two 19th-century turnpike tollhouses.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 93, Broadwindsor. From the entry ridgeway
• Alongside Brahmanism was the non-Aryan Shramanic culture with its roots going back to prehistoric times.1972, Cromwell Crawford, review of L. M. Joshi, Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism, Philosophy East and West. From the entry Brahmanism
• Prehistoric pottery, art, cave painting, engraving can be incorporated into the exhibition as an added colourful attraction.1972 January–March, Dilip Kumar Ray, “Some Thoughts on the Problems of Arrangement of Anthropological Specimen in Museums”, in Amalendu…. From the entry cave painting
• Through camera trickery, dinosauri and other beasts of the prehistoric past live again.1925 February 21, “Goings On”, in The New Yorker, volume 1, number 1, New York City, New York, United States: F-R Pub. Corp., →ISSN…. From the entry dinosauri
• These have usually been explained as testifying to a migration from the Iberian Peninsula to Sardinia in prehistoric times.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 15. From the entry testify
• The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled.2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry wrap
• Instead, the City of Angels, that ever-metastasizing concrete gin blossom of on-ramps and off-ramps built over prehistoric tar pits, deflowered her.2003, Ian Philips, Satyriasis: Literotica 2, page 94. From the entry gin blossom
• The overall feel on today is prehistoric.1996, Douglas Coupland, “Postcard from Palo Alto”, in Polaroids from the Dead, New York, N.Y.: ReganBooks, →ISBN, part 2 (Portraits of…. From the entry dilophosaurus
• Labretifery occurred over a wide distribution from the Kuriles to southern British Columbia in the late prehistoric period.1995 Allen P. McCartney, Hunting the largest animals: native whaling in the western Arctic and subarctic, Canadian Circumpolar Institute…. From the entry labretifery
• Pterosauruses are giant birds that lived during prehistoric times.1993, Linda Ward Beech; James Beers; Ronald L. Cramer; W. Dorsey Hammond; Lida F. Lim; Patricia Muncy; John Prejza, Jr.; DeWayne Triplett…. From the entry pterosaurus
• The uroboros is the prehistoric track of natural cycle, from which Judaism and Hellenism make a conceptual break.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry ouroboros
• The man-engine was like some gigantic prehistoric monster.1971, Susan Howatch, chapter 1, in Penmarric, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, part IV (Philip: 1914–1930…. From the entry man engine
• The Long Man is the dod-man, the prehistoric surveyor.[1925], Arthur Watkins, “Ley-men”, in The Old Straight Track; Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites, and Mark Stones, London: Methuen, →OCLC…. From the entry dodman
• This show also begins with an admirable upfrontness about the little compromises that mean the experience is not quite as prehistoric as all that.2015 February 3, Tim Dowling, “10,000 BC review: 'It might make you wish you lived in a time before television'”, in The Guardian, London…. From the entry upfrontness
• The lakes of both Rotorua and Taupo occupy calderas left from enormous prehistoric eruptions, and magma lies at shallow depths beneath a number of centres.2000, Tony Waltham, “Geyser watching”, in Geology Today, volume 16, Iss. 3, p. 99. From the entry caldera
• That disoccupation is a universal phenomenon is evident from modern data, but there is no way of determining its magnitude at a prehistoric site.1990, T. Patrick Culbert, Don Stephen Rice, Precolumbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands, page 115. From the entry disoccupation
• From prehistoric eons to distant galaxies, broadsworded behemoths and laser-blasting bozos undertake great quests and dangerous journeys across new worlds (and even weirder old ones).1990, L[arry] A[lan] Morse, “Fantasy Adventures”, in Video Trash, Treasures II: A Field Guide to the Video Unknown, Toronto, Ont.…. From the entry broadsworded
• A prehistoric site of late Pleistocene age, which was especially prepared for our visit, was seen at Ting-ts'un, above the Fen River (Shansi).1977, F. Clark Howell, “Introduction”, in Paleoanthropology in the People's Republic of China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry Pleistocene
• Owners and sponsors of the drive-ins feel that in three-quarters of their patrons they have tapped a practically prehistoric strain of human—the hitherto non-movie-goer.1975, David Manning White, Popular Culture, page 154. From the entry drive-in
• The word I was looking for, I suppose, was "sphingine" – I thought of the baleful prehistoric smile of the Mycenaean women.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 109. From the entry sphingine
• It is related to the tradition of prehistoric Manchurian painted pottery from Ch’ih-feng (Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, part of the original Khitan territory).[1973 May, Mino Yutaka, “Liao Dynasty Ceramics at China House Gallery New York”, in The Connoisseur, volume 183, number 735, The National…. From the entry Chifeng
• The new Trust property also includes the interesting small prehistoric stone circle on the nearby brooghs and is also of considerable botanical interest.1970, Manx Museum and National Trust, The Journal of the Manx Museum, volume 7, issues 86-87, page 162. From the entry broogh
• Speiser, who made excavations on Vao Island found prehistoric potsherds at a depth of 10 inches, and on the surface of the ground also.1950, Alphonse Riesenfeld, “Megalithic Monuments and Megalithic Culture”, in The Megalithic Culture of Melanesia, Leiden: E. J. Brill…. From the entry potsherd
• The countenance might have been that of a cross between Pithecanthropus, the Java ape-man, and a daughter of the Piltdown race of prehistoric Sussex.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry semiarboreal
• It is a matter of record in history that asphalt was used in the construction of a highway in Peru, being built by prehistoric races.1905, The Inland Architect and News Record, volume 45, page 65. From the entry matter of record
• It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths and huts and graves.1901 April 2, W. W. Robson, quoting Arthur Conan Doyle, “Introduction”, in Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another…. From the entry monolith
• The guts of fossilized marine reptiles are packed with belemnites, and it's been theorized that some prehistoric sharks even died from the overconsumption of heavy belemnite shell guards.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry belemnite
• Find out about prehistoric Canada from an archaeologist who’s discovered remnants of what could be a 10-thousand-year-old village in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia.2013 August 15, Marc Montgomery, “Archaeologist digs up long lost village – Indigenous, the Other Story”, in Radio Canada International. From the entry Luxvbalis
• Prehistoric toolmakers overlooked some knapping errors (excluding nonirreparable breakage) because they ignored certain types of errors in favor of recognizing a consistent and meaningful whole of the tool.2011, Wm Jack Hranicky, Prehistoric Projectile Points Found Along the Atlantic Coastal Plain, page 227. From the entry toolmaker
• When sweet-hearted Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo) decides he wants his own family and stumbles onto dino eggs, he adopts the little critters, unleashing all manner of prehistoric chaos.2009 July 9, Hugh Hart, “Movies: ’’Bruno’’ Ups Ante on Outrage”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry sweet-hearted
• By hydronymy earlier strata of a population might be identified and the movements of prehistoric peoples can be observed assessing the spread of the hydronymy associated with them.2007, Helmut Birkhan, Hannes Tauber, Kelten-Einfälle an der Donau. From the entry hydronymy

Meaning of prehistoric

1. adjective Of or relating to the epoch before written record.
2. adjective Ancient; very old, outdated, etc.

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How do you use prehistoric in a sentence?

Prehistoric is used as an adjective. For example: “Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.”

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“That’s all prehistoric.”

What does prehistoric mean?

Prehistoric means of or relating to the epoch before written record.