prehistorian

Examples

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• The prehistorian discovered ancient artifacts that provided insight into early human societies.

• And so we come to the end of these reflections on Carl Sauer as a prehistorian.

  Academic text (2002)

• Do any archaeologists or any of these prehistorians dispute the Younger Dryas?

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• In the post-Soviet era, both priests and prehistorians have a stake in the future of a once-resplendent ancient city.

  Academic text (2002)

• The celebrated prehistorian Gordon Childe observes: "Reasoning, and all that we call thinking, including the chimpanzee's, must involve mental operations with what psychologists call images."

  Blog text (33)

• Although some evidence of Kharga's history was recorded by the prehistorian Gertrude Caton-Thompson in the 1930s, we were surprised by the number of Neolithic sites we found.

  Academic text (2008)

• The artist, Ernest Griset, whose drawings often appeared in Punch magazine, worked with pioneer prehistorian and polymath John Lubbock, Darwin's protégé and only student.

  Academic text (2009)

• Meanwhile, prehistorians fixed their attention on processes of state and empire formation at work in earlier times in Mesoamerica, when the native written record was a less substantial source of data and civilized life's cycles of growth and decline passed uninterrupted by cataclysmic cultural encounters.

  Academic text (1997)

• At the archaeological site, the prehistorian examined the remains of a settlement from thousands of years ago.

Synonyms

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archeologist

vsprehistorian

• US

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A person who studies past human life by digging up old things

focuses on the time before written records rather than excavation methods

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology