He succeeded in crossing the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados after a two-month voyage of 6, 100 km with Ra II in 1970, thus conclusively proving that boats such as the Ra could have sailed with the Canary Current across the Atlantic in prehistoric times.

Aleut basketry is some of the finest in the world, and the tradition began in prehistoric times. The main method of basketry used by the Aleuts was false embroidery ( overlay ).

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

Lime as building material was used since prehistoric times going as far back as 7000 to 14000 BC.

Archeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as the 9, 000 year old Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka paintings in India and Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from c. 3300 BC.

According to Aeschylus in the prologue of the Eumenides, it had origins in prehistoric times and the worship of Gaia.

Dice are hard to differentiate from knucklebones because ancient writers confused the two, but both were used in prehistoric times.

Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of Ptolemy ( the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer ) in about 140 AD provide possibly the earliest reference to a settlement there.

In prehistoric times, great amounts of sediment collected on the floor of Lake Amora.

Sketches and paintings have been produced since prehistoric times, as demonstrated by cave and rock paintings.

** Shahnameh ( Persian literature ; details Persian legend and history from prehistoric times to the fall of the Sassanid Empire )

In prehistoric times, there was a third subfamily known as Machairodontinae, which included the " saber-toothed cats " such as the well known Smilodon.

In prehistoric times, goddesses were worshipped for their association with fertility, fecundity, and agricultural bounty.

Forest gardens originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad river banks and in the wet foothills of monsoon regions.

Modern humans apparently visited the Gibraltar area in prehistoric times after the Neanderthal occupancy.

The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding.

However, when and where the ancestors of the Goths assigned this name to themselves and whether they used it in Indo-European or proto-Germanic times remain unsolved questions of historical linguistics and prehistoric archaeology.

The area of the later city of Gdynia shared its history with Pomerelia ( Eastern Pomerania ); in prehistoric times it was the center of Oksywie culture ; it was later populated by Slavs with some Baltic Prussian influences.

History of Europe covers the people inhabiting the European continent since it was first populated in prehistoric times to present, with the first Homo sapiens arriving between 45, 000 and 25, 000 BC.

Known to have been played as far back as prehistoric times, games are generally distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration.

Replicas of real things in a smaller scale go back to prehistoric times, as small clay " dolls " and other children's toys have been found near known population areas.

The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies, have used petroleum seeps since prehistoric times ; where found, these seeps signaled the growth of the industry from the earliest discoveries to the more recent.

The arrival of the Hittites in Anatolia in prehistoric times was one of a superstrate imposing itself on a native culture, either by means of

In prehistoric and protohistoric times, over the period of at least 800, 000 years, the area of present-day Poland went through the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age stages of development, along with the nearby regions.

The earliest known Indian paintings ( see section below ) were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, the petroglyphs as found in places like the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, ( see above ) and some of them are older than 5500 BC.

The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.

Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was the first alloy discovered, during the prehistoric period now known as the bronze age ; it was harder than pure copper and originally used to make tools and weapons, but was later superseded by metals and alloys with better properties.

Mycenae and Tiryns are the two principal sites on which evidence of a prehistoric civilization was remarked long ago by the classical Greeks.

It was not until Schliemann exposed the contents of the graves which lay just inside the gate, that scholars recognized the advanced stage of art which prehistoric dwellers in the Mycenaean citadel had attained.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented for example, in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

But by laying bare in 1884 the upper stratum of remains on the rock of Tiryns, Schliemann made a contribution to our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life which was amplified two years later by Christos Tsountas's discovery of the palace at Mycenae.

The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.

This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...

In the prehistoric period, Chad was much wetter than it is today, as evidenced by large game animals depicted in rock paintings in the Tibesti and Borkou regions.

The area known today as Croatia today was inhabited throughout the prehistoric period.

There are numerous prehistoric sites in the vicinity including Nether Largie North cairn, which was entirely removed and rebuilt during excavations in 1930.

The first such prehistoric lake is named " Lake Amora ", which was a freshwater or brackish lake that extended at least south of the current southern end of the Dead Sea and north, well above the present Hula Depression.

There is evidence of prehistoric settlements at the site of the town: flint arrowheads and Bronze Age artefacts have been found ; Iron Age forts have been excavated on both the East and West Hills suggests an early move to the safety of the valley in between, so that the settlement was already a port when the Romans arrived in Britain for the first time in 55 BC.

In the same time Vladimir Obruchev wrote a fiction novel Plutonia, where the hollow Earth's interior possessed one inner ( central ) sun and was inhabited by prehistoric species.

Geoffrey provides prehistoric London with a rich array of legendary kings, such as King Lud ( see also Lludd, from Welsh Mythology ) who, he claims, renamed the town CaerLudein, from which London was derived, and was buried at Ludgate.

There are traces of prehistoric hill forts within the park, notably on the rocky knoll above Dunsapie Loch.

The Manerba, with its shape, the rocky outcrop on the southwestern shore of Lake Garda, has attracted man from prehistoric times until the sixteenth century.

Its native range is S. Europe to W. Asia, and seems to have been introduced to Britain by prehistoric people, where its habitat consists of rocky places near the coast in south-west England and Wales.

It was on a rocky promontory facing the river, easily defended, though it is debatable whether it was inhabited in prehistoric times.