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Inevitable are thoughts of ancient Stonehenge, or perhaps primordial cairns marking trails or burial grounds in premodern societies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025

This mimamoru approach has its roots in a premodern concept of nature, according to Professor Yosuke Hirota at the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences of Osaka Metropolitan University.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024

Or, put another way, How much premodern evidence is needed to prove a modern theory?

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

Writing and scholarly research were not always well funded in the premodern world, so wealthy patrons, including the caliph himself, provided financial support to scholars capable of completing this work.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

It is certainly true to say that premodern agriculturists tended to be theists, but it does not teach us much about the particulars.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari