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prehistory
prehistory period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to provide a coherent account. The study ... Read more
Vere Gordon Childe
Vere Gordon Childe 1892-1957, British archaeologist, b. Australia. An Oxford graduate, he taught at the Univ. of Edinburgh (1927-46) and the Univ. of London (1946-56). He gained renown for his monumental synthesis of European prehistory, The Dawn of European Civilization (1925, 6th ed. 1957), and... Read more
Tiryns
Tiryns , ancient city of Greece, in the NE Peloponnesus, 2.5 mi (4 km) N of Nauplia (now Návplion) and near Argos. The site seems to have been inhabited since the 3d millennium BC It was a city of splendor from c.1600 to c.1100 BC Excavations begun by Heinrich Schliemann and Wilhelm Dörp... Read more
Bering Strait
Bering Strait c.55 mi (90 km) wide, between extreme NE Asia and extreme NW North America, connecting the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea. It is usually completely frozen over from October to June. The Diomede Islands are in the strait. The narrowness of the strait makes it possible for small boat... Read more
Clovis culture
Clovis culture a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the ) known through artifacts first excavated in the early 1930s near Clovis, N.Mex. The artifacts, including chipped flint points known as Clovis points and a variety of additional stone tools, were found along wit... Read more
William James Durant
William James Durant 1885-1981, American historian and essayist, b. North Adams, Mass. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1917 and published his doctoral dissertation, Philosophy and the Social Problem, in the same year. This was followed by The Story of Philosophy (1926), an immediate best... Read more
Bronze Age
Bronze Age period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons. Pure copper and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, were used indiscriminately at first; this early period is sometimes called the Copper Age. The earliest use of cast m... Read more
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac , or Les Eyzies, village (1993 est. pop. 856), Dordogne dept., SW France, on the Vézère River. Situated some 15 mi (24 km) SW of the Lascaux caves (see Paleolithic art ), the village is in an area rich in prehistoric remains. The more than 100 archaeological si... Read more
Folsom culture
Folsom culture , a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the ) known through artifacts first excavated (1926) near Folsom, E of Raton, N.Mex. The artifacts, including chipped flint points known as Folsom points and a variety of other stone tools, were found in associatio... Read more
barrow
barrow in archaeology, a burial mound. Earth and stone or timber are the usual construction materials; in parts of SE Asia stone and brick have entirely replaced earth. A barrow built primarily of stone is often called a cairn . Barrows occur in many parts of the world; they were built during the ... Read more

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prehistory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition prehistory period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept...on archaeological evidence to provide a coherent account. The study of prehistory is concerned with the activities of a society or culture, not of the...
antiquity and prehistory of the Americas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition antiquity and prehistory of the Americas study of the origins of the aboriginal peoples of the Americas. Archaeologists believe humans had entered and...
Archaeology
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...can extend from the beginning of human prehistory to the most recent of modern times...who left behind no written history. Prehistory has no definite time period, having...different parts of the world. European prehistory ended with the appearance of primitive...
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...a leading Kenyan researcher in human prehistory and wildlife conservationist, was responsible...s greatest contributions to African prehistory derived from his skill as an administrator...Leakey Memorial Institute for African Prehistory. Through books, lectures, and his...
Maya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in the Pánuco basin of Mexico), the population of Maya today is over 4 million. Maya Prehistory Archaeologists divide the prehistory of the Maya region into the Preclassic (c.1500 BC-AD 300), Classic (300-900), and Postclassic...
Bronze Age
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...mastered iron. Bibliography: See V. G. Childe, The Prehistory of European Society (1958, repr. 1962); J. W. Alsop, From the Silent Earth (1964); G. Clark, World Prehistory: An Outline (2d ed. 1969); A. H. Jones, Bronze...
Vere Gordon Childe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...London (1946-56). He gained renown for his monumental synthesis of European prehistory, The Dawn of European Civilization (1925, 6th ed. 1957), and The Prehistory of European Society (1958). His studies in Asian archaeology led him to...
Intelligence, Military and Political
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...proved extremely important politically during the Cold War. Prehistory: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The founders were...that was highlighted by Prussia's recent victories. The prehistory of U.S. intelligence ended with the successful covert action...
Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...from the upper Magdalenian period. Breuil was lecturer in prehistory and ethnography at the University of Fribourg (1905-1910...of Breuil in English is Alan Houghton Broderick, Father of Prehistory (1963). See also André Leroi-Gourhan, Treasures...
archaeology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...near Folsom, N.Mex. (see Folsom culture ), established the substantial depth of prehistory for the New World (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the ). Modern Archaeology In contrast to the antiquarianism of classical archaeology...

Dictionary entries related to "Prehistory"

Prehistory, Rise of
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas PREHISTORY, RISE OF. Historians have long distinguished...archaeology." The pre-history of "prehistory" itself includes the collection of...and anthropology. The practice of prehistory was also apparent in the tradition of...
Prehistory
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PREHISTORY Freud used "prehistory" to refer to the most remote past, the "already there...an autonomous natural science of origins. Yet the notion of prehistory was also transformed into a ground for speculating and for pursuing...
Archaeology and Prehistory of North America
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA. Settlement of the North American continent began at least 15,000 years ago, after the ocean level had dropped to expose a landmass beneath the modern...
prehistory
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History prehistory The history of the time before written records were kept. The only source of evidence concerning early societies is archaeological...
Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...anthropology and took his Ph.D. in African prehistory. He then became a research fellow of...an honorary fellow. His interests in prehistory and ethnology were stimulated by M...s important discoveries about the prehistory of East Africa and his discovery of...
Mortillet, Louis-Laurent Gabriel De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...infancy. Indeed, the word “ prehistory ” itself was not widely known...Poitou. The first public recognition of prehistory at a scientific congress occurred at...by the president to give a survey of prehistory, and as a result it was decided to...
Boule, Marcellin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...played in the establishment of prehistory or paleoanthropology in France...close kinship between geology and prehistory in the period of the latter...emergence, for in its beginnings prehistory was an extension of geology...
Lartet, Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...France, 16 August 1899), geology, prehistory . Lartet was the son of the paleontologist and student of prehistory É douard Lartet. After two...observations concerning geology and prehistory that were published in the Bulletin...
Breuil, Henri Édouard Prosper
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2013; Oise, France, 14 August 1961) prehistory . Breuil, the son of farmers, entered...human paleontology. He was lecturer in prehistory and ethnography at the University of...Paris, from 1910; and professor of prehistory at the Coll è ge de France from...
Sacred Texts: Koran
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...which one might speak of the history and prehistory of the text. For the believer, the Koran's prehistory is its preexistence in the heavenly...religions, hoping to discover there the prehistory of the text now known. However, this...

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A sense of place in Irish prehistory. (response to Peter Woodman, Antiquity, vol. 66, p. 295, 1992) (includes reply)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...ANTIQUITY, 'Filling the spaces in Irish prehistory' (66: 295--314), was developed...Prehistoric Society, 'What's new in Irish prehistory?' Was it actually new? Did it fill the spaces in the periods of earlier Irish prehistory that ANTIQUITY asked Professor Woodman...
L.P. Louwe Kooijmans, P.W. Van Den Broeke, H. Fokkens & A.L. van Gijn (ed.). The Prehistory of the Netherlands.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...amp; A.L. VAN GIJN (ed.). The Prehistory of the Netherlands. 2 volumes, 844...Countries to an understanding of insular prehistory had to wait for the Prehistoric Society...looked at an enlarged update of the prehistory of the Netherlands south of the Rhine...
Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...1986). Gamble attempts a global prehistory, tries to answer a fundamental question...on earth? He re-examines a world prehistory, which he considers bedevilled by outmoded...and 19th-century interpretations of prehistory. Gamble ends with recent international...
Irish Prehistory: A Social Perspective. (book reviews)
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A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Arctic; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; A PREHISTORY OF THE NORTH: HUMAN SETTLEMENT OF THE...This book's cover bears its title. A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the...answers ended up something like "A Prehistory of the Northward Expansion of Human...
Origins and development of the field of prehistory in Burma.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...circumstances under which the study of prehistory evolved in Burma; and second, to identify...topics for future students of Burma's prehistory. As a historian of early Burma, however...over the many layered minefields of prehistory. Yet, at the same time, I do not...
Chesapeake Prehistory: Old Traditions, New Directions. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; My interests in prehistory centre on the southeastern United...read this synthesis of Chesapeake prehistory. With the volume of literature that...comprehensive summary, Chesapeake prehistory is a welcome alternative voice for...
The rise of prehistory.
Magazine article from: Journal of World History; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; "Prehistory" itself had a prehistory, and it includes the early inquiries through the disciplines...of the New World. But it was in the nineteenth century that prehistory (Vorgeschichte, prehistoire, preistoria) emerged in its...
The Prehistory of Missouri
Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; The Prehistory of Missouri. By MICHAEL J. O'BRIEN...place in the understanding of Plains prehistory. The State of Missouri forms the eastern...Plains almost as deeply as he does. The Prehistory of Missouri is ideally designed for...
A Prehistory of Sardinia: 2300-500 BC. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...persistent problems for students of the prehistory of the central Mediterranean is the...landscapes overflowing with remarkable prehistory and museums stuffed with treasures...volume by Webster aims to introduce the prehistory of Sardinia, from its cultural origins...