adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
prehistoric/stone-age/modern man (= people who lived at a particular stage of human development )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
man
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Some sites are astronomical calendars, others lunar observatories, showing the scientific abilities of prehistoric man .
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But most of the references to prehistoric man , Darnton says, are based on current research and theories.
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We still don't understand how prehistoric man achieved that feat.
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But unlike prehistoric man , you have far fewer ways to release the energy produced by the stress response.
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Fire, then, may well have been the first enshrined divinity of prehistoric man .
site
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We have already noted that folklore associates certain numbers, particularly three, seven and nine, with prehistoric sites .
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In 1938 he postulated that leys and prehistoric sites marked a network of subtle energy and that this power could be detected.
times
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On the whole the climate of prehistoric times was warmer and more uniform than it is now.
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Tirthankaras, dating back to prehistoric times .
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Dating since prehistoric times people still lived here until the 1960s.
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This was so as early as prehistoric times .
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Our sand lizard, resembling a green mini-monster from prehistoric times , scrambled over the twiggy heather.
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Scientific study had long since proved that it was the work of giant rabbits who had lived there in prehistoric times .
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But we do not have to go back to prehistoric times to witness the change in our diet.
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The only evidence for their use in prehistoric times are the remains of simple tubes often in pieces.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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prehistoric cave drawings
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A number of authoritative scholars seriously question the propriety of interpreting prehistoric remains by reference to the customs of modern primitive peoples.
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Frazer writes about the ceremonial king of so many prehistoric agricultural societies.
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There are some ruins down there and some prehistoric engravings in the rock faces.
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There is at least one other prehistoric ridgeway on sheet 145.
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They have looked upon the bones of the prehistoric dead and seen evidence of a Stone Age holocaust.
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What can we learn from twenty prehistoric burial chambers, which we call cists, and which have been uncovered up to now?