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  • n  the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word

  • Rigorous in her approach, intensely focused and remarkably diligent, Mary quickly set new standards in the study of African prehistory, culminating in her stunning monographs on .
  • Proverbs date from prehistory, and the old ones are all anonymous.
  • A new survey of Australian prehistory records the dramas of the distant past--and the debates of the present.
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  • Richard Gere in Reuters
    Religion comes from the period of prehistory where nobody had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for... Christopher Hitchens http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNERCoUbtz5lLwqt6E6Ei3pz5opJyA Bloomberg http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601088%26sid%3DaZSNdh.maSGQ%26refer%3Dmuse&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGnW6uzMuBH6j1hpGaX7PpTRHQxSQ May 9, 2007 76995 103918 prehistory I don't think there is any question that we have prehistory," Gere said of Lane. "We are not together. We are not married (but) I have no doubt we have many lifetimes of history between us."
  • Chris Stringer in Independent
    Professor Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, said: "The quality and quantity of material from the North Sea shows what a rich resource it is for helping to reconstruct missing phases of our prehistory....

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