* Menura tyawanoides, a prehistoric lyrebird

The province of Schleswig has proved rich in prehistoric antiquities that date apparently from the 4th and 5th centuries.

Its name has become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations.

One land, however, has eclipsed all others in the Aegean by the wealth of its remains of all the prehistoric ages — Crete ; and so much so that, for the present, we must regard it as the fountainhead of Aegean civilization, and probably for long its political and social centre.

This terminology has gained in recent popularity when describing the entire range of robust, drystone structures which exist in later prehistoric Atlantic Scotland.

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 addition, Leary has provided voices for characters in animated films, such as a fire-breathing dragon named Flame in the series The Agents, a prehistoric saber-toothed cat named Diego in the Ice Age film series, and the pugnacious ladybug Francis in A Bug's Life.

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.

A prehistoric petroglyph on a riverbank in Goa shows the same pattern and has been dated to circa 2500 BC.

In the marshlands to the south of the area, a complex water-borne fishing culture has existed since prehistoric times, and has added to the cultural mix.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

Opium has been actively collected since prehistoric times, and may be the soma plant ubiquitously mentioned in the Rig Veda.

It is certain that the region has been inhabited since prehistoric times, although evidence of the existence of a community on Mount Titano dates back only to the Middle Ages.

Sandstone has been used for domestic construction and housewares since prehistoric times, and continues to be used.

Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times, and the earliest records of swimming date back to Stone Age paintings from around 7, 000 years ago.

" It is also known that Kevin Plunder has been granted political asylum in the United States for his human rights activism in this prehistoric land.

Southeast Asia has been inhabited since prehistoric times.

It has been found that the North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critical factor in prehistoric species loss than had been previously thought.

Algeria is rich in prehistoric memorials of human occupation, especially in megalithic remains, of which nearly every known kind has been found in the country.

Frenda, which has largely preserved its old Berber character, has numerous dolmens and prehistoric rock sculptures close by.

Although knowledge of prehistoric Bhutan has yet to emerge through archaeological study, stone tools and weapons, remnants of large stone structures, and megaliths that may have been used for boundary markers or rituals provide evidence of civilization as early as 2000 BC.

A more certain prehistoric period has been theorized by historians as that of the state of Lhomon ( literally, southern darkness ) or Monyul ( dark land, a reference to the Monpa aboriginal peoples of Bhutan ), possibly a part of Tibet that was then beyond the pale of Buddhist teachings.

The site where the town now sits has been populated since prehistoric times, as many archeologial excavations have shown through the years.

There can be little doubt that mahogany timber has been used since prehistoric times by the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Central and South America.

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.

Dyed flax fibers have been found in the Republic of Georgia dated back in a prehistoric cave to 36, 000 BP.

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

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.

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.

There have been scattered prehistoric finds, evidence of farming, burial and traces of habitation, but nothing more substantial.

This diversity is reflected in the names given to the islands, which are derived from the languages that have been spoken there in historic and perhaps prehistoric times.

Cladh Hallan, a Bronze Age settlement on South Uist is the only site in the UK where prehistoric mummies have been found.

Stratigraphic analysis from the most recent excavations showed prehistoric human activity at the altar site, which seems to have been in continuous use from the Late Neolithic period through to the Hellenistic era.

Several mustelids, including the mink, the sable ( a type of marten ) and the stoat ( ermine ), boast exquisite and valuable furs and have been accordingly hunted since prehistoric times.

In China, Ostriches are known to have become extinct only around or even after the end of the last ice age ; images of Ostriches have been found there on prehistoric pottery and petroglyphs.

Epic poetry, from the Indian Vedas ( 1700 – 1200 BC ) and Zoroaster's Gathas to the Odyssey ( 800 – 675 BC ), appears to have been composed in poetic form to aid memorization and oral transmission, in prehistoric and ancient societies.

The Po river is first certainly identified in the Graeco-Roman historians and geographers of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, long after the valley had been occupied successively by prehistoric and historic peoples: Ligures, Etruscans, Celts, Veneti, Umbri, and Romans.

According to some archaeologists, PIE speakers cannot be assumed to have been a single, identifiable people or tribe, but were a group of loosely related populations ancestral to the later, still partially prehistoric, Bronze Age Indo-Europeans.

There have been many attempts to claim that particular prehistoric cultures can be identified with the Proto-Indo-European-speaking peoples, but all have been speculative.

Stone lintels have been used to support roofs since prehistoric times, but cannot bridge large distances.