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prehistoric

adjective as in before recorded history

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On Thursday, British authorities charged a pair of climate change activists for vandalizing Stonehenge, a prehistoric megalithic structure on a chalk plateau known as the Salisbury Plain.

From Salon

For many years, paleontologists have debated what these prehistoric big cats would have looked like based on their fossilized bones.

Though the film takes place at disparate points in time, going all the way back to the prehistoric era, it doesn’t look a whole lot different to today.

From Salon

California created an orchard for the world in large part by tapping into prehistoric aquifers that underlay the Central Valley.

As packs of prehistoric dimensions prepare for a set-piece, often only the referee offers a sense of human scale.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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