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prehistory

[pree-his-tuh-ree, -his-tree] / priˈhɪs tə ri, -ˈhɪs tri /






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It describes several overlapping anxieties about modern restaurant food, but its prehistory belongs, at least partly, to the ghost kitchen.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The findings challenge traditional ideas about how humans and wolves interacted in prehistory.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Rejecting science and his British masters, Tomás vows to record the true history and prehistory of his region as an act of “honour and resistance.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Al-Shamahi takes her story up to the invention of writing, where prehistory may be said to end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

As it turns out, the story has some little-appreciated but striking parallels with the American prehistory that we encountered in the preceding chapter.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The study “talks about prehistories of Indigenous people in the Pacific, but then it jumps to present-day, and it doesn’t say anything about what happens in between,” Arvin says.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 29, 2022

In either case, of the five habitable continents, North America and South America are the ones with the shortest human prehistories.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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