How to Use prehistory in a Sentence

prehistory

noun
  • We are learning about the prehistory of North America.
  • That has been true since prehistory.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Dinosaur teeth are no longer just relics of prehistory.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
  • This is true for the students of prehistory as much as ecologists.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2011
  • Every parent has a prehistory that none of their children can know.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The explorer built the balsa wood raft to show that people could have made the trip in prehistory.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Over the broad sweep of prehistory and then history, pet keeping went through two distinct stages.
    — Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
  • That gives the first glimpse of a type of socially complex household in prehistory.
    — Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The exhibit will cover the prehistory of the region up to the present.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Everyone has to fight through great thickets of prehistory, and not just the dinosaurs.
    — Tom Shone, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Some kind of cognitive advance in human prehistory could have launched both skills.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The need for an explanation dates back to prehistory.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
  • At one point in our prehistory, the human population might have dropped as low as a few thousand people.
    — WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The next, blinding pain, a crunch, and then darkness — dead at the paws of one of prehistory’s greatest carnivores.
    — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2021
  • In ancient prehistory, such tribes were small enough that everyone knew everybody else.
    — Harvey Whitehouse, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Lapidary has its roots in prehistory, as early humans began fashioning tools and weapons from stone.
    — Chuck Fieldman, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2017
  • The millions who live in these cities, though, know that there’s a whole prehistory to their modernist urban experiments.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Modern humans and Neanderthals met—and made love, or at least babies—at some point in prehistory.
    — Bymichael Price, science.org, 13 Oct. 2022
  • And a new discovery shows that even in prehistory, coast-huggers were building these defenses, too.
    — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • During this window of prehistory, the path between the continents was passable by sea.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The alternative is a return to some kind of techno-prehistory.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • For most of its history and prehistory, the human race has lived in various states of ignorance and wonder.
    — Robert Pogue Harrison, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Previews of his design show a panoramic view of Los Angeles from prehistory to the present.
    — Doug Smithsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • In the prehistory of human creativity, the invention of drawing combines a new skill and a new tool.
    — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Anthony Murphy, an author of books on Irish prehistory, made the find using a drone.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
  • Sicily has never been terribly distant from the rest of Italy, and there could have been a land bridge connecting the two in prehistory.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • And the lab refrigerators are filled with bones from 2,000 more denizens of prehistory.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The effort is bringing to light the landscape and prehistory of a lost homeland of ancient Europeans.
    — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Until now the story has been one of two very different eras separated by a mysterious gap at a key point in prehistory.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Its elliptical tale of human evolution from prehistory to the space-age future is still profound.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025

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