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Definition of Prehistorian
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prehistorian
Literary usage of Prehistorian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Woman from Bondage to Freedom by Ralcy Husted Bell (1921)
"The difference is this: the prehistoric year is multiplied in the conception of
the prehistorian by 525000. His spring begins with the Eocene Epoch, ..."
2. French Ways and Their Meaning by Edith Wharton (1919)
"... suppleness and audacity^ for after that far-off flowering time the prehistorian
comes on a period of retrogression when sculptor and draughtsman fumbled ..."
3. The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John Mason Tyler (1921)
"... might play the part of a good host, and introduce many intelligent, thoughtful,
and puzzled readers to the company and view-point of the prehistorian. ..."
4. The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John Mason Tyler (1921)
"... might play the part of a good host, and introduce many intelligent, thoughtful,
and puzzled readers to the company and view-point of the prehistorian. ..."
5. The Evolution of Culture: And Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1906)
"What the palaeontologist does for zoology, the prehistorian does for anthropology.
What the study of zoology does towards explaining the structures of ..."
6. Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1915)
"... Europe is by far the most important and interesting one before the prehistorian.
Upon it depends the question of the duration of the Old Stone Age, ..."
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