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Evidently, we have a powerful desire to portray fearsome beasts of prey as rulers of prehistoric nature.
This ethnographical museum contains many prehistoric and historic instruments and textiles.
Our understanding of the physical anthropology and ethnobotany of this prehistoric people has increased considerably in the past several decades.
As many as thirty dolmens, the remains of prehistoric chambered tombs, have been discovered.
I heard a tale of true romance, crusty old prehistoric creatures and happily ever after.
Iron is one of the most widely distributed of metals and has been used in ornamental work since prehistoric times.
The ease with which we now travel over land has led to a great disparity between prehistoric and modern perceptions of islands.
A very common artifact from prehistoric sites in this region is the end-scraper.
Like some prehistoric hunter, you imagine yourself triumphantly standing in the midst of your now disemboweled prey.
Inside the caves here, you can virtually smell the dung of prehistoric mammoths and ground sloths.
A family of prehistoric dimwits go about their daily business, occasionally interrupted by dinosaur attacks and other such primordial dangers.
Derived from the prehistoric deposits of marine creatures, greensand is good for loosening-up compacted soils.
Like prehistoric man, some of the beliefs of the Egyptians were based on myths and legend.
Artifacts on those installations include shrines, gravesites, sculptures and prehistoric dolmens.
It was only later, after going solo, that he went all interesting, becoming a devotee of prehistoric Britain.
Palaeoseismology is the study of prehistoric earthquakes using geological and geomorphological evidence.
Concentrations of prehistoric ceramics and debitage were noted in two areas that campers had disturbed by clearing and leveling tent sites.
Now native only to China, the dawn redwood was the most common sequoia in North America during prehistoric times.
The woman cranks away vainly at a machine that looks prehistoric but the man thinks faster.
The hated yellow tiles on the Arndale Centre may be stuck in the Seventies but their replacements are positively prehistoric.
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A superficial investigation round these ponds usually reveals a few prehistoric sherds.
We're looking at archaeology, of course, which is a record of prehistoric cultural evidence found in the ground.
Among sites recorded are a possible prehistoric earthwork enclosure and industrial remains.
In the late prehistoric period, pine woodland was extensive in the Scottish Highlands and the west of Ireland.
Our knowledge of the vessels in use in the prehistoric period is still uncomfortably slight.
Inland, newly recorded cropmark sites include a prehistoric pit circle and a small Roman villa, set within a landscape of ancient fields.
The late prehistoric archaeological record at La Crosse is dominated by a series of Oneota village sites.
The bow and arrow were used throughout the late prehistoric period and into historic times.
Two later prehistoric hillforts stand on the edge of a steep slope with magnificent views westwards.
The naturally defensible site may even have been a prehistoric hillfort, and was certainly a stronghold of the Welsh princes.
Surely we have progressed as a society enough to have this prehistoric form of punishment banished to the dark ages.
Their culture is of prehistoric origin and precedes the arrival of Hinduism to Bali.
Most humic acids and fulvic acid are extracted from near ancient prehistoric deposits on top of coal.
One day, he would give that prehistoric crone what was coming to her, but not today.
Even more remarkable than the evidence of prehistoric man was the discovery of thousands of fossilised animal bones.
Armadillo aficionados might be interested to know that Cambodia has issued a postage stamp to celebrate a prehistoric armadillo.
More impressive still is an eagle in flight, when its utter immensity seems almost prehistoric.
Imagine prehistoric apes trying to bake a cake, or a young caveman putting up a flat-packed bookcase.
There is, as yet, no convincing archaeological evidence for tin exploitation in the west of England in the prehistoric period.
Pictographs also are fragile, since prehistoric artisans do not appear to have used any fixative, such as animal fat, in their pigments.
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As the threat of a Cold War recedes, they unleash their tanks and firepower on prehistoric burial mounds.
Analysis has shown that the avenue was heavily trampled by prehistoric feet, and archaeologists have unearthed numerous finds along its edge.
From prehistoric spears to massive modern field guns, mankind has always found a way to launch projectiles at enemies.
In prehistoric times, natural disasters and competition with other species were the main causes.
Alpha, the resident caveman, is played by Charlie Russo with the lumbering cloddishness popularly associated with prehistoric males.
A thundering, prehistoric steam engine cleaves the crowd, whistle screaming, a velvet column billowing into the dark.
Both were royal hunting grounds in medieval times, but earlier settlement is attested by later prehistoric farmsteads and occasional hillforts.
I began to think I was looking at a mating ritual carried out by aliens, or humanoids in a prehistoric colony.
This potential is illustrated with a cluster analysis of paleofecal constituents from three late prehistoric period sites.
The cave at Lascaux contains Palaeolithic drawings and paintings and is generally held to be the finest example of prehistoric art.
The Chillingham herd is believed to be related to prehistoric auroch oxen, which once grazed across northern Europe.
Archaeologists have identified one of Britain's largest prehistoric hill forts in the North Yorkshire Moors.
I was no longer going to look like a prehistoric cavewoman holed up in her room because of Z. No, I wouldn't even think about him.
Finally, the artist pulled the sheet off the couple, revealing an image resembling a prehistoric cave painting.
The quality of the artwork is the main reason that Lascaux is considered the finest example of prehistoric cave paintings.
To illustrate the point, he told a story of a group of cavemen living in prehistoric times.
Interesting rock formations will delight the beachcomber who might even come across relics of prehistoric strandlopers.
Nearby are Kinsale, Clonakilty and attractions such as a prehistoric stone circle, huge beaches and plenty of craft shops.
Bulls are found in stone carvings as well as in the prehistoric cave paintings of the region.
The author of The Dictionary of Word origins has traced its roots to Latin, Old Norse and prehistoric Germanic words.
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Last year, a group of researchers explored the prehistoric art at the Cantabrian Caves in Spain.
They were mostly asleep, but a few stood on guard, vast bulks rearing black against the sky, prehistoric and foreboding.
Indeed, mainland Scotland boasts some very unusual prehistoric fortifications, built like towers without mortar, and known as brochs.
Two brachiosauri with a Christ complex walk across a prehistoric lake mural on the side of the building.
These volcanic necks are the remnants of upwelling lava from the cores of active volcanoes in prehistoric times.
Most resorts in Manado can make special arrangements with local fishermen to show you the prehistoric nautilus.
Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him.
A unique prehistoric tomb in Ireland has been revealed to align to both the midsummer Sun and the midwinter Moon.
A large, steep-sided depression, most likely a prehistoric borrow pit, was noted just to the north of the mound.
Well, although we associate the boomerang with Australian Aborigines, many cultures used boomerang-like equipment in prehistoric times.
To see one of these great prehistoric creatures wandering unhindered in its natural habitat is both thrilling and a very special treat.
A mile to the south, in the glen of the Allt nan Uamh, the bones of prehistoric man were found in a series of caves.
In the pre-dawn light the mist over the water parting briefly to offer a tiny glimpse of some prehistoric monster.
It looked prehistoric, with its long nose and tail section and armour-plated body.
The space manages to connect prehistoric nomads to post-industrial skateboarders.
A prehistoric bear shaman figurine was recovered from Ohio Hopewell mortuary contexts at Newark, Licking County, Ohio.
The use of caves as mortuary sites by prehistoric Native Americans was widespread in the karst region of southwest Virginia.
There were timid deer and huge morocoys that moved with prehistoric slow motion.
It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths, huts and graves.
It was truncated on its northern fringe by two prehistoric mining pits and on its eastern side by another.
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Also in the river are miller's thumbs and lamprey, a prehistoric fish, that buries into silt when young and behaves like a worm.
The Berbers are a non-Semitic people who have inhabited the north African coast since prehistoric times.
Associated sites include the dense cluster of prehistoric shell middens in the constricted Mississippi River floodplain.
Giant whale vertebrae lie beached and bleached on the shore like prehistoric, bone propellers.
Several megatheriums and other rare species of the prehistoric era lived on this island.
A set of prehistoric footprints, said to show meat-eating dinosaurs hunting vegetarian dinos, has just been recreated in a detailed 3-D model.
With its prehistoric burial mounds, barrows and encampments, its feudal laws and time-trapped settlements, the New Forest is anything but.
By contrast the prehistoric stones have been seen as male symbols of fertility with the power to impregnate barren women.
Near the corner of Wilshire and La Brea, tourists gape at the remains of saber-toothed cats and mastodons dredged out of prehistoric tar pits.
In the February issue, Marayoor, known for its natural sandalwood forests and prehistoric rock paintings, is featured.
The foxy showbiz legend Basil Brush is back for more madness and mayhem and Cavegirl returns with more prehistoric comedy and adventure.
And, talking of ruts, the landscape here is grooved with many prehistoric ones.
After all, they still have some wildness in them from their prehistoric ancestors, aurochs.
The site consists of a series of lynchets forming a prehistoric field system, with a later enclosure, possibly of Roman date.
It is time we realized that in this day and age of science we do not need these prehistoric doctrines to rule our lives.
What if the attraction is an atavistic throwback to the prehistoric human fascination with telling tales?
Even a book he assiduously promoted on prehistoric archaeology sold in hundreds of thousands.
He observed and drew a number of structures called rua kopiha, built in rows on the terraces of the prehistoric pa.
The canyons, arroyos, and rincons of the Southwest were the ancestral home of indigenous, prehistoric Pueblo peoples.
But did the Neolithic arrowhead mean that they had found a prehistoric archer?
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In eight groups of rockfalls more than 75,000 years old, broken speleothems are the only record of the prehistoric seismicity.
The interior materials, control layout and appearance are simply prehistoric.
All our remote ancestors were prehistoric and studying them is one way of understanding our own origins and evolution.
The terraced square of rough stone blocks follows the terrain, suggesting an odd reminiscence of prehistoric megaliths.
This is a landlocked salt-water lake that was cut off when the surrounding reef rose up in prehistoric times.
The remains from prehistoric times show that the country was inhabited when the present Hungarian lowlands were covered by the ocean.
As the road dipped down to the floor of this prehistoric lakebed we were struck by waves of searing heat.
Among prehistoric lacertilians were the gecko Ardeosaurus and the monitor Megalania.
The history of the knife is an intriguing one dating hack to simple flint tools knapped by prehistoric man.
Apparently living at great depths with the hagfish, the prehistoric ratfish was recently discovered off Brazil by scientists.
There is evidence that the descendants of Native Americans in prehistoric times used beads as adornment in jewelry as well as a way to trade.
He jets to Bruce Springsteen concerts, has several luxury cars and collects fossils in prehistoric amber.
Left-handedness may have conferred prehistoric man advantages, such as in combat, say the researchers.
The place was dotted with the corbel-vaulted beehive huts of the prehistoric inhabitants.
We now know more than the simple fact that prehistoric knappers obtained tool stone at the Hatch quarry.
In contrast, the Le Sauvage fields remain closely associated with prehistoric cairns, and some are overlain by Rivalte-type walls, so are at least pre-Medieval.
A terrible storm melts the polar ice caps, unleashing a group of prehistoric creatures called aurochs.
Once again, the Hatch quarry represents a prospect site where the prehistoric knappers came to obtain jasper nodules and tablets scattered across the surface.
During a jolly visit to the island, Johnson and Boswell danced a reel on the flat top of Dun Caan and discovered a prehistoric souterrain near Raasay House.
The place where we went most often was Carnac, on the South coast of Brittany, a little town famous for its stunning prehistoric menhir alignments.
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A few passages of Irish heroic poetry that survive from the prehistoric period employ an alliterative line very much like the one used by Old English poets.
Ohio flint, which is among the finest flint in North America, was worked extensively by prehistoric Indians and is widely sought for knapping and use in the lapidary trade.
On the western end of the beach is a large, grassy mound with a shallow depression in the top. This is the site of a prehistoric fortification, or broch.
The ancient Maya were imagined as a prehistoric, mysterious, ritualistic cult, ineluctably estranged from European historical and philosophical systems.
The massive inflatable structure is filled with multi-colored light and takes a prehistoric yet futuristic shape.
These uplands preserve some astonishing Roman and prehistoric remains.
Cereals include wheat, rice, barley, oats, rye, maize, millet, and sorghum, all of which have been used as food since prehistoric times, and cultivated since antiquity.
In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns.
In response, English Heritage funded excavation of the prehistoric barrow mound at Woodnesborough, near Sandwich, in the field where it was uncovered.
Ubelaker has associated such joint modifications in the remains of prehistoric Ecuadorian women with corn-grinding using a two-handed mano and slab metate.
I choose instead a flat six-mile track traversing Licuala State Forest Park, where the giant fan palms and prehistoric cycad trees start a few feet from the parking lot.
The shoebill is a large and dark grey bird that looks almost prehistoric.
Particularly significant are the jet, amber and quartz items, valued as mortuary goods from prehistoric times onwards for their electrostatic and refractive properties.
Some of the many points of interest include early features such as burial mounds, stone circles and cairns that mark areas of prehistoric cultivation.
Here are the high plains and deeply-cleft bocage country of Normandy, the stony, prehistoric wilds of Brittany, and the richly-planted riversides of the Seine and the Loire.
There can be few museums in the world whose range of exhibits includes a stuffed, 5ft-long, prehistoric fish and a pair of unworn, extremely expensive, blue cowboy-boots.
Whaling in Korea dates back to the prehistoric era, as is evidenced by rock carvings, as well as bones and fishing spears found in Ulsan that are 5,000 years old.
Until then, it will remain associated with the vestiges of the prehistoric age, with the collective unconscious, which is subject to a peculiar and ever-increasing activation.
But the idea that climate change killed the prehistoric beasts is just the media jumping to conclusions.
The plant is native to C. or S. America, where it has been in use since prehistoric times, and is the only member of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, which provides food.
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Ridged fields apparently protect crops from mild frosts, and their construction may have facilitated the northward expansion of prehistoric agriculture.
Beyond the col, the track becomes steeper and you have to work a little harder to reach the summit of Mid Hill at 422m with its prehistoric burial cairn and view indicator.
Bison and elks were actually expanding before and during human colonization, and their fossilized bones pop up in prehistoric hunter camps, he says.
In fact, these prehistoric Olmec Indians prized chocolate so much that they buried a pot of it with dead dignitaries, to get them through the arduous journey to the next life.
If ditto machines were primitive, hectographs were downright prehistoric.
In prehistoric times, when the first caveman consciously struck a musical note with a rock against metal, there was silence in the cave for a short time afterwards.
The discovery of prehistoric cave paintings in the last century led to the shocking realisation that humans have been creating art for over 30,000 years.
A team of archaeologists from Sheffield University have revealed significant new insights into the role of Stonehenge after discovering a prehistoric ceremonial road.
Other finds at the Agate Fossil Beds include the remains of the chalicothere Moropus, the camel Stenomylus, the prehistoric beaver Paleocastor, and the bear-dog Daphoenodon.
Following a preliminary inspection of the site, Mr Downe said he believed the ruins were part of a prehistoric roundabout that may have also been used for pagan ceremonies.
Quantification of paleoethnobotanical data has helped archaeologists recognize plant-use strategies by prehistoric people in the American Bottom region of Illinois.
Paleofecal material contains the most direct evidence available for prehistoric diet and nutrition in the form of undigested food remains consumed by specific individuals.
Alice discovers the remarkable detail that these imprints reveal about the people and about the strange prehistoric animals that were living on the coast 5,000 years ago.
Our project of creating huge, authentic-looking rock sculptures covered with pictograms generated a lot of enthusiasm and interest in the study of prehistoric art.
The prehistoric monster had come from some deep pool below the river.
Was this a prehistoric promontory fort, as traces might indicate?
In real life, Boga resembles a wide variety of reptiles including iguanas, geckos, Komodo Dragons, regal horned lizards, frilled lizards, and even prehistoric dinosaurs.
Believed to have changed little since prehistoric times, the frilled shark is linked to long-extinct species by its slinky shape and by an upper jaw that is part of its skull.
A prehistoric occupation site was discovered at the bottom of a hollow some 600 sq. m. in area, resulting from the collapse of an underground pothole.
There is an overwhelming predominance of female images in prehistoric art.
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She concluded that there are dating problems at many sites and that carbonized rice grains rarely have been recovered and documented from datable prehistoric contexts.
Raunds lies between prehistoric sites already famous to prehistorians.
The richest source of all for prehistoric artefacts has been the Thames.
Iron has been used in the British Isles since the prehistoric Iron Age.
No humans were around to make permanent records of prehistoric hurricanes.
My Dad happens to be the oldest, a positively prehistoric forty two.
In 1877, he expounded his theories on British prehistoric peoples in the book British Barrows written jointly with the famous barrow-opener William Greenwell.
In the 1960s, workmen on a hill, prophetically called Terra Amata, discovered the remains of a prehistoric camp.
Middens testify to the prehistoric importance of oysters as food, with some middens in New South Wales, Australia dated at ten thousand years.
Whilst the pillar itself dates to the 9th century, the mound is thought to be significantly older, possibly prehistoric.
Silver was one of the seven metals of antiquity that were known to prehistoric humans and whose discovery is thus lost to history.
In Europe, the use of iron covers the last years of the prehistoric period and the early years of the historic period.
The one from Aseri was excavated from a prehistoric stone-grave and was deposited as a grave good or lost as a stray find.
Extinct Bits of bone wombat bulk diprotodon a time-worn crumbling prehistoric hulk.
On a site in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, depictions of a rhinoceros-like prehistoric marsupial, the diprotodon, were found.
Bryn Celli Ddu is a prehistoric site on the Welsh island of Anglesey located near Llanddaniel Fab.
The prehistoric existence of what is now known as Doggerland was established in the late 19th century.
Vessels have dragged up remains of mammoth, lion and other animals, as well as a few prehistoric tools and weapons.
But other imprints in the smooth black shale disple any image of a peaceful prehistoric aquarium.
There is no evidence of prehistoric or Roman activity in this area, but the area has not been fully excavated.
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We have no direct evidence for how early Celtic laws treated foreigners for most of the late prehistoric Celtic world.
A 4-foot, prehistoric looking creature appeared, slightly resembling a dogtooth tuna.
The ancient structures suggest the presence of a large, prehistoric burial complex.
The province of Schleswig has proved rich in prehistoric antiquities that date apparently from the 4th and 5th centuries.
South of the city, the King's Park prehistoric carvings can still be found.
Wicca is an ancient belief system that originated in prehistoric times.
Another prominent belief among modern Druids is the veneration of ancestors, particularly those who belonged to prehistoric societies.
They offer suggestions for sculpting several groups of prehistoric animals, emphasizing prehistoric life as viewed by modern paleontologists.
Several tribal religions still exist, though their practices may not resemble those of prehistoric religions.
The researchers noted that while these prehistoric titans were proboscideans like modern elephants, they likely looked quite different.
Other tourist attractions include moorland, country gardens, museums, historic and prehistoric sites, and wooded valleys.
Figure skating is one branch of ice skating, a sport which has divided itself into several separate activities since its prehistoric beginnings.
You get 32 prehistoric nasties and the ability to fly and fight on a winged Pteranodon.
As in Loch Tay, several of the islands appear to be crannogs, artificial islands built in prehistoric periods.
A prehistoric souterrain structure at Caithness has been likened to discoveries at Midgarth and on Shapinsay.
As with prehistory, determining when a culture may be considered prehistoric or protohistoric is sometimes difficult for archaeologists.
Using plants and plant substances to treat all kinds of diseases and medical conditions is believed to date back to prehistoric medicine.
There are no other later prehistoric standing stones within this part of Wales that are cupmarked, making this one rather unique.
Having earned a reputation as an excellent prehistorian, he was invited to other parts of Europe in order to study prehistoric artefacts.
Shetland is also extremely rich in physical remains of the prehistoric eras and there are over 5,000 archaeological sites all told.
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Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from prehistoric times to the present.
Archaeologists have found evidence of prehistoric human settlements in the area, dating back to the Paleolithic era.
Sandstone has been used for domestic construction and housewares since prehistoric times, and continues to be used.
Some commentators trace the origins of commerce to the very start of transaction in prehistoric times.
Labretifery occurred over a wide distribution from the Kuriles to southern British Columbia in the late prehistoric period.
As with most of Europe, prehistoric Britain and Ireland were covered with forest and swamp.
He did use the opportunity to visit many of the prehistoric sites of Wiltshire, such as Avebury and Silbury Hill, which fascinated him.
The Hebrides were originally settled in the Mesolithic era and have a diversity of important prehistoric sites.
Archaeologists have discovered large prehistoric trackways crossing bogs in Ireland and Germany.
In the Old World, humans learned to smelt metals in prehistoric times, more than 8000 years ago.
Also on the summit are the remains of two prehistoric burial cairns, one of which is the remains of the highest known passage tomb in Ireland.
Arran has been continuously inhabited since the early Neolithic period, and numerous prehistoric remains have been found.
Cladh Hallan, a Bronze Age settlement on South Uist is the only site in the UK where prehistoric mummies have been found.
There have been trackways from the Lowlands to the Highlands since prehistoric times.
The Wrangel Island population became extinct around the same time the island was settled by prehistoric humans.
Despite their prehistoric look, crocodiles are among the more biologically complex reptiles.
The rock shelter features prehistoric paintings of fish, including the barramundi, wallabies, crocodiles, people and spiritual figures.
Petroglyphs are found worldwide, and are often associated with prehistoric peoples.
There is a unique similarity between petroglyph marks and prehistoric potteries as if all these works are done by a sole artist.
Like many prehistoric artifacts, the cultural meaning of these figures may never be known.
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Archaeologists often study such prehistoric societies, and refer to the study of stone tools as lithic analysis.
The use of ropes for hunting, pulling, fastening, attaching, carrying, lifting, and climbing dates back to prehistoric times.
Bone and ivory needles found in the Xiaogushan prehistoric site in Liaoning province date between 30,000 and 23,000 years old.
The era's finds include tools, ornamental beads, and bone pins as well as prehistoric art.
As with archaeology as a whole, maritime archaeology can be practised within the historical, industrial, or prehistoric periods.
The form of societal hierarchy known as chiefdom or tribal kingship is prehistoric.
Slowly, through the following millennia, temperatures and sea levels rose, changing the environment of prehistoric people.
In 1846 Johann Georg Ramsauer discovered a large prehistoric cemetery near the current location of Hallstatt.
Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for whom there may be no written records to study.
Without such written sources, the only way to understand prehistoric societies is through archaeology.
Practised only among the alpine population since prehistoric times, it is recorded to have taken place in Basel in the 13th century.
Today the term is typically used in conjunction with prehistoric or ancient historical references.
In prehistoric times, Negritos were some of the archipelago's earliest inhabitants.
Despite its modernity, the daymark, alongside some prehistoric cairns, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
These artifacts are said to be evidence of long range communication between prehistoric Southeast Asian societies.
This was a site of the great prehistoric Moche and Chimu cultures before the Inca conquest and subsequent expansion.
Evidence for prehistoric human occupation was uncovered in 1975 at the Chertov Ovrag site.
Whether in prehistoric or historic times, people always had to be near reliable sources of potable water.
The Charleroi area was already settled in the prehistoric period, with traces of metallurgical and commercial activities along the Sambre.
Seven bear skulls from the cave may have been buried by the same prehistoric people.
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Some elements of Taoism may be traced to prehistoric folk religions in China that later coalesced into a Taoist tradition.
The distribution of stone axes is an important indication of prehistoric trade.
In some areas of Europe, the spread of blanket bogs is traced to deforestation by prehistoric cultures.
With the beginning of the Viking Age in the 9th century, the prehistoric period in Denmark ends.
By definition, there are no written records from human prehistory, so dating of prehistoric materials is crucial.
Direct radiocarbon dating of prehistoric cave paintings by accelerator mass spectrometry.
Or zamia pseudoparisitica, a prehistoric cycad fern from Australia, of which 100 seedlings were adopted in February.
Although there have been no major prehistoric finds, these advantages suggest the site was occupied early.
A Petroglyph is an intaglio abstract or symbolic image engraved on natural stone by various methods, usually by prehistoric peoples.
We were was stopped in our tracks by what looked like a prehistoric relic keeking through the bracken.
Visitors used prehistoric hand-driven pump drills and an atlatl, the spear-thrower used by Paleoindians to hunt mammoths.
Research into this prehistoric settlement is controversial, with differences of opinion in many academic disciplines.
Archaeological finds, such as cave paintings, prove that humans were present in the region in prehistoric times.
Relevant to the hypothesis is that its description has led some to connect this catastrophe with prehistoric flood myths.
Nilsson concluded that all great classical Greek myths were tied to Mycenaen centres and anchored in prehistoric times.
In reality, these poems were probably composed by several different poets, and contain a rich set of clues about prehistoric European mythology.
In any case, the genus name Sushkinia is invalid for this animal because it had already been allocated to a prehistoric dragonfly relative.
It covers an area of 26 square km and is centred on the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge.
A number of prehistoric species have been described, mostly from the Northern Hemisphere.
Andromeryx is another prominent prehistoric ruminant, but appears to be closer to the tragulids.
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Marine seashells found in Lake Ontario sediments imply a similar event in prehistoric times.
Both are known for their geology, and it has been suggested that the caves were used for maturing cheese in prehistoric times.
Not all of the figures identified as prehistoric art are in fact human made.
Matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand?
That the Balts lived east of the Vistula from remote prehistoric times is unquestioned.
A massive prehistoric stone wall surrounded the ancient temple of Ness of Brodgar 3200 BC in Scotland.
Scientific studies confirm that the Capivara mountain range was densely populated in prehistoric periods.
Settled 2500 years, the Nan Madol site is a living memorial to the prehistoric Micronesians that once inhabited Pohnpei.
Many of the earliest discoveries of dinosaur and other prehistoric reptile remains were in the area surrounding Lyme Regis and Charmouth.
The New Tarpan has been rewilded into it's prehistoric home range, struggling to find their way back to their ancient selves.
Of the crown genus Gavia, nearly ten prehistoric species have been named to date, and about as many undescribed ones await further study.
These were recovered in the vicinity of Roman thermae, which are situated outside the prehistoric village of Plocnik.
The Neolithic passage tomb of Bryn Celli Ddu is one of Wales's best-known prehistoric monuments.
To check their conclusions, the scientists made models of prehistoric stone tools and used them to drill human cheek teeth.
Nearby is the Barnhouse Settlement, a smaller cluster of prehistoric buildings.
The area has the largest concentration of prehistoric small farms on the American continents.
One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest stone circle in Europe.
The territory of modern Portugal has been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.
Last year I went looking for a prehistoric standing stone that was recorded in 1929 but wasn't marked on the modern OS map.
See how many red squirrels you can spot in the woods and even some natterjacks and prehistoric footprints.
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From prehistoric times to the present, mining has played a significant role in the existence of the human race.
The prehistoric settlers began clearing the forest, and established the first farming communities.
In prehistoric times, this animal was hunted by the Alby People of the east coast of Oland, Sweden.
Several prehistoric burial mounds have been found in the vicinity of Bridgend, suggesting that the area was settled before Roman times.
The majority of the prehistoric remains on Dartmoor date back to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
Nearly 340 caves have now been discovered in France and Spain that contain art from prehistoric times.
The Romans also built a watchtower on the top of Holyhead Mountain inside Mynydd y Twr, a prehistoric hillfort.
The large chicks of the Manx shearwater are very rich in oil from their fish diet and have been eaten since prehistoric times.
These have yielded evidence of how prehistoric human populations lived as nomadic hunters and traders.
The first structural relic of prehistoric man was excavated in 1973 at Cefn Glas near the watershed of the Rhondda Fach river.
Fragments from prehistoric wattle and daub buildings have been found in Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica and North America.
The terrain for which it was best suited and for which it was probably designed in distant prehistoric times was the rolling plain.
The presence of healed bone fractures in prehistoric skeletons is frequently noted in palaeopathological analyses.
There is also something distinctly prehistoric about the sunda gharial, a huge croc from Malaysia.
Unfortunately, only graffiti from more recent times was discovered and no trace of the alleged prehistoric carvings was found.
Abundant natural resources in and around the Menai Straits enabled human habitation in prehistoric Britain.
Along with his wife, Aileen Fox, he surveyed and excavated several prehistoric monuments in Wales.
Palynomorphs form a geological record of importance in determining the type of prehistoric life that existed at the time the sedimentary formation was laid down.
Another prehistoric stone circle tradition occurred in southern Scandinavia during the Iron Age, where they were built to be mortuary monuments to the dead.
The area is also surrounded by prehistoric antiquities, including Bronze Age settlements, stone rows and an impressive standing stone, the Beardown Man, situated to the north.

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