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Meaning of "prehistorian" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PREHISTORIAN

ˌpriːhɪˈstɔːrɪən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREHISTORIAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prehistorian is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PREHISTORIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prehistory

Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history or the invention of writing systems. Prehistory refers to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it can refer to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing. The notion of 'prehistory' began to surface during the Enlightenment in the work of antiquarians who used the word 'primitive' to describe societies that existed before written records. The first use of the word prehistory in English, however, occurred in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836. The term "prehistory" can refer to the vast span of time since the beginning of the Universe, but more often it refers to the period since life appeared on Earth, or even more specifically to the time since human-like beings appeared. In dividing up human prehistory, prehistorians typically use the three-age system, whereas scholars of pre-human time periods typically use the well-defined geologic record and its internationally defined stratum base within the geologic time scale.

Definition of prehistorian in the English dictionary

The definition of prehistorian in the dictionary is someone who studies prehistory or the period of man's development before the appearance of the written word.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREHISTORIAN

amatorian · centaurian · consistorian · historian · Nestorian · Oratorian · polyhistorian · praetorian · pretorian · propraetorian · protohistorian · psychohistorian · refectorian · salutatorian · senatorian · stentorian · sutorian · Territorian · valedictorian · Victorian

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREHISTORIAN

preheminence · prehend · prehensible · prehensile · prehensility · prehension · prehensive · prehensor · prehensorial · prehensory · prehiring · prehistoric · prehistorical · prehistorically · prehistories · prehistory · prehnite · preholiday · prehominid · prehuman

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREHISTORIAN

Brian · censorian · Dorian · Ecuadorian · ethnohistorian · gladiatorian · Gregorian · Hungarian · hyperdorian · Hypodorian · infusorian · Ivorian · lictorian · madreporian · mid-Victorian · natural historian · pelorian · Salvadorian · sartorian · suctorian

Synonyms and antonyms of prehistorian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prehistorian» into 25 languages

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史前学家
1,325 millions of speakers
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prehistoriador
570 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
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prehistorian
380 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
280 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
278 millions of speakers
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prehistoriador
270 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
260 millions of speakers
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préhistorien
220 millions of speakers
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Prasejarah
190 millions of speakers
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Prähistoriker
180 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
130 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
85 millions of speakers
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Prehistorian
85 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
80 millions of speakers
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முன்வரலாற்றாளருமான
75 millions of speakers
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Prehistorian
75 millions of speakers
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Tarih öncesi
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prehistorian
65 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
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prehistorian
40 millions of speakers
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preistoricieni
30 millions of speakers
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προϊστορίας
15 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
14 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
10 millions of speakers
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prehistorian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prehistorian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREHISTORIAN»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prehistorian

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREHISTORIAN»

Discover the use of prehistorian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prehistorian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 To 5000 B.C. Myth, Religion, ...
In this astonishing synthesis of classical and archaeological scholarship, Settegast takes us from the cave paintings of Lascaux to the shrines of Catal Huyuk, demonstrating correspondences to both Plato's tale and the mystery religions of ...
Mary Settegast, 2000
2
Space, Time and Man: A Prehistorian's View
A remarkable account of man's understanding of his place in space and time, from prehistory to the present.
Grahame Clark, 1994
3
The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Green, Prehistorian, p. 118. Harris (ed.), Archaeology, p. 4. Green, Prehistorian, p . 125. Green, Prehistorian, p. viii. Harris (ed.), Archaeology, p. 5: 'It was not until ...
David Burke, 2014
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Aspects of Prehistory
Lubbock, John, British pioneer of prehistory, 5 n., 14, 15, 87 Luther, Martin, 10 Lyell, Charles, British geologist, 11, 12 McBryde, Isabel, Australian prehistorian, 80 n. McBurney, C. B. M., British prehistorian, 69 n., 72 n. McCown, T. D., American ...
Grahame Clark, 1974
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Methodology and African Prehistory
The prehistorian approaches the problem of hominization in Africa from a standpoint that is somewhat different from that of the palaeontologist. For the prehistorian, hominization is the progressive development of the brain, or cerebralization, ...
Joseph Ki-Zerbo, J. Ki-Zerbo, 1990
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Technological Choices: Transformation in Material Cultures ...
It would be important for the prehistorian to know, for New Guinea, the details of how a new technical feature (the steel axe) and a secondary characteristic (glass beads) spread from the initial coastal exchanges at the end of the nineteenth ...
Pierre Lemonnier, 2013
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Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes
Paleolithic Bridled Horses adapted from figure 9a of Plato Prehistorian. popular Greek mythology, Poseidon was the first to tame the horse. Evidence exists that the Magdalenians tamed horses—for example, 15,000-year-old drawings of ...
Barbara Hand Clow, 2001
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Man the Hunter
THE NATURE OF CULTURE Any model of cultural structure which is to be of utility to the prehistorian must consider the material aspects of culture, since those include the observational data upon which he must base inferences about human ...
Richard Barry Lee, Irven DeVore, 1973
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Prehistory: An Introduction
All these matters are bound up very closely together, and the prehistorian must concern himself with them all. In studying Man's past, he is merely one of a number of specialists all working together: among the others will be geologists, ...
Derek Arthur Roe, 1970
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The Birth of Prehistoric Chronology: Dating Methods and ...
H.'s Medieval Sweden (1879-1903) is still a standard work. H. was a poly- historian of unusual proportions, and his scholarly production was enormous. Lindenschmit, Ludwig, 1809-1903. German prehistorian. Worked as a drawing teacher in ...
Bo Gräslund, 1987

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREHISTORIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prehistorian is used in the context of the following news items.
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Discovery in Israel pushes back dawn of agriculture to 23000 years …
Ofer Bar-Yosef, a prehistorian from Harvard University. “A historical example is Leonardo da Vinci, who, in his notebooks, designed several ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
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Bruce Museum to hold sixth annual Icon Awards
As an Aegean prehistorian who has written extensively on the Eastern Mediterranean world in the Bronze Age, and a graduate of Harvard ... «Greenwich Post, May 15»
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France to open doors to cave attraction going back 36000 years
French prehistorian Jean Clottes speaks to journalists during a press visit of the Cavern of Pont-d'Arc project site April 8, 2015. The visitor walks ... «Malay Mail Online, Apr 15»
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World's biggest replica of cave paintings to open in southern France
“There is no progress in art,” one prehistorian told the Telegraph. “Man mastered it all from the start: volume, perspective, line, the lot.” ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
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Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, France: see how Stone Age man …
“There is no progress in art,” said a prehistorian I met in the cave. “Man mastered it all from the start: volume, perspective, line, the lot.” I'd tell ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
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Finally, the Beauty of France's Chauvet Cave Makes its Grand Public …
Prehistorian Norbert Aujoulat studied a single painting, Panel of the Panther, identified the tools used to create the masterwork and found other images ... «Smithsonian, Mar 15»
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An art historian's solution to the mystery of Stonehenge: Look up
Prehistorian and Oxford University archaeology professor Sir Barry Cunliffe was also unconvinced. “He could be right, but I know of no ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
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'Dig': TV Review
Each episode introduces several new wrinkles — even an arrogant prehistorian played on autopilot by hoity-toity specialist Richard E. Grant ... «Hollywood Reporter, Mar 15»
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Archaeologists Say They've Uncovered the Place Where Jesus Was …
Solid evidence is lacking on whether the trial actually took place there, but Amit Re'em, a prehistorian with the Israel Antiquities Authority, told The Huffington ... «RYOT, Jan 15»
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Film Review: 'The Pyramid'
(The younger Dr. Holden, unsurprisingly, is both a prodigious prehistorian and a graduate of the Christmas Jones Academy of Scientist Couture ... «Variety, Dec 14»
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