Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology.

French Philosopher

Peter Thiel

Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.

American Businessman

Jean M. Auel

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

American Writer

Alice Roberts

I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe.

English Scientist

David Remnick

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.

American Journalist

Peter Jackson

The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

New Zealander Director

Alice Miller

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Swiss Psychologist

Louis Leakey

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

British Scientist

Donald Johanson

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.

American Scientist

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

Refers specifically to times before humans could record events in writing.

Time Before Writing

Events in prehistory can't be dated precisely as there are no written records.

No Exact Dates

Prehistory is studied through physical evidence, like fossils and tools, not books.

Archaeology Based

Indicates a period before the well-documented history of a subject.

Before Known History

Can refer to an early, formative period, not just a chronological era.

Not Always Time

Often used to discuss the beginnings or origins of a particular entity.

Focus on Origins

 major trade corridor for at least fourteen hundred years or so but it's quite clear that there's an antiquity here that goes well beyond that that is other projects other ideas had been proposed to suggest that that this region is not simply a relatively recent addition to prehistory but in fact has some very substantial antiquity that

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 as well as they did as teenagers so you have these three mysteries is there one kind of piece in the puzzle which might wrap all these things up you gotta be really careful anytime someone looks back in prehistory and tries to give you some sort of global answer because it being prehistory you know you can say

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 where geriatrics are performing as well as they did as teenagers. So you have these three mysteries. Is there one piece in the puzzle which might wrap all these things up? You've got to be careful anytime someone looks back in prehistory and tries to give you a global answer because,

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 wilderness cannot be restored or recreated only destroyed we are just about to lose our last glimpses into prehistory that connect us to Eternity and remember a time before modern man every year we pole ourselves across the

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 extraterrestrials visited earth in the remote past so why do we think it's even remotely possible that people of prehistory were visited by aliens because ancient texts from cultures around the world speak of mysterious

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 Within a short time span, three-quarters of the world's species disappeared forever, and the giant dinosaurs, flying pterosaurs, shelled squids, and marine reptiles that had flourished for ages faded into prehistory.

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 where we became fully human, but also by the social situations in which we evolved. This reverse engineering can also enlist help from the human record preserved in prehistory.

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 but it's not who you are. How is that different from the talk you gave? Well first of all, the evidence for high levels of violence in prehistory is very debatable.

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 and not the reality. Now, most of the time, that works. Most of the time, feeling and reality are the same. Certainly that's true for most of human prehistory.

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 there are more dog burials in prehistory than there are burials of any other animals including cats for example or horses dogs seem to have a very special