The religion had its roots in Egypt's prehistory and lasted for more than 3, 000 years.

The term was never meant to suggest that advancement and time periods in prehistory are only measured by the type of tool material, rather than, for example, social organization, food sources exploited, adaptation to climate, adoption of agriculture, cooking, settlement and religion.

In the Homeric epics, the Greeks of prehistory are viewed as the ancestors of the early classical civilization of Homer's own time, while the Mycenaean pantheon included many of the divinities ( e. g. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades ) attested in later Greek religion.

Budge's contention that the religion of the Egyptians was essentially identical to the religions of the people of northeastern and central Africa was regarded by his colleagues as impossible, since all but a few followed Petrie in his contention that the culture of Ancient Egypt was derived from an invading Caucasian " Dynastic Race " which had conquered Egypt in late prehistory and introduced the Pharaonic culture ( Trigger, 1994 ).

The " origin of religion " refers to the emergence of religious behavior in prehistory, before written records.

Chinese veneration of ancestors ( 拜祖, baizu ; or 敬祖, jingzu ) dates back to the prehistory and is considered an integrant part of Chinese folk religion, and a mandatory practice in Confucianism.

According to some scholars, for example Hirai Naofusa in Japan and Joseph Kitagawa in the US, Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan, has existed as such continuously since pre-history, and consists of all the peculiarly Japanese rituals and beliefs shaped by Japanese history from prehistory to the present.

He is noted for his studies of the dialects of Vedic Sanskrit, old Indian history, the development of Vedic religion, and the linguistic prehistory of South Asia.

Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

The specific study of the origin and life of humans is anthropology, particularly paleoanthropology which focuses on the study of human prehistory.

As a result a study of an archaeological landscape can involve a multidisciplinary approach requiring the inclusion of many specialists from a variety of disciplines including prehistory, historical archaeology, maritime archaeology, anthropology.

Vere Gordon Childe ( 14 April 1892 – 19 October 1957 ), better known as V. Gordon Childe, was an Australian archaeologist and philologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory.

Meanwhile, he also began to look into the prehistory of Australia, coming to the opinion that there was much for archaeologists to study in this field, and he gave several lectures to various archaeological and leftist groups on this and other topics.

To facilitate this Harlan's superiors in Eternity allow him to pursue his study of " prehistory ", which is history prior to the Eternity's creation that, because Eternity had not yet been created then, cannot be traveled to nor changed.

In addition, anthropologists study the history and prehistory of competition in various cultures.

Fields of activity included study of prehistory and ancient history ( directed by Wilhelm Jordan, who led excavations in the region ), study of medieval history and folklife ( directed by Karlernst Lasch from March 1935 ), build-up of the " Library of the Schutzstaffel in Wewelsburg " ( directed by Dr. Hans Peter des Coudres ), and strengthening the National Socialist worldview in the village of Wewelsburg ( directed by Walter Franzius, this included such work as renovation of a timbered house in the center of the village of Wewelsburg — the " Ottens Hof "— between 1935 and 1937 for use as a village community center ; Franzius also undertook various other architectural tasks ).

An archaeological industry, normally just " industry ", is the name given in the study of prehistory to a consistent range of assemblages connected with a single product, such as the Langdale axe industry.

Clark's 1954 publication of these excavations is a seminal text in the study of the British Mesolithic and prehistory generally.

It is now recognised that many of Clark ’ s inferences were incorrect but the excavation remains one of the most important in the study of British prehistory ever undertaken.

The archaeology of Israel is the study of the archaeology of Israel, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history.

The International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences ( IUPPS ) is a learned society, linked through the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies to UNESCO, and concerned with the study of prehistory and protohistory.

Clemmer writes, “ Altogether, the publications released between 1949 and 1953 represent nearly the entire gamut of Steward ’ s broad range of interests: from cultural evolution, prehistory, and archaeology to the search for causality and cultural “ laws ” to area studies, the study of contemporary societies, and the relationship of local cultural systems to national ones ( Clemmer 1999: xiv ).” We can clearly see that Steward ’ s diversity in subfields, extensive and comprehensive field work and a profound intellect coalesce in the form of a brilliant anthropologist.

The context in which prehistoric music took place has also become a subject of much study, as the sound made by music in prehistory would have been somewhat different depending on the acoustics present.

Antiquity of Man expanded it to include the study of prehistory.

It would be difficult to find a concept more influential on the study of prehistory, and yet " Kossinna's Law ", as it came to be called, began to be abandoned during the explosion of archaeology following World War II.

On 1 January 2001 he was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal " for services to Australian society and the humanities in the study of prehistory and archaeology ".

His areas of specialization include Scandinavian languages and linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, African languages, Dené – Caucasian languages, and paleolinguistics ( the study of prehistory through linguistic evidence ).

Many of its elements originated in religious ideas, but the conflict between Horus and Set may have been partly inspired by a regional struggle in Egypt's early history or prehistory.

He says that " the origin of the myth of Horus and Seth is lost in the mists of the religious traditions of prehistory.

Guido suggests that if a " few dominating leaders arrived as heroes only a few centuries before Phoenician trading posts were established, several features of Sardinian prehistory might be explained as innovations introduced by them: oriental types of armour, and fighting perpetuated in the bronze representation of warriors several centuries later ; the arrival of the Cypriot copper ingots of the Serra Ilixi type ; the sudden advance in and inventiveness of design of the Sardinian nuraghes themselves at about the turn of the first Millennium ; the introduction of certain religious practices such as the worship of water in sacred wells-if this fact was not introduced by the Phoenician settlers ".

In contrast, lost lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during prehistory, often associated with ancient myths and legends ; and vanishing islands are islands that are submerged during high tide.

Roving bands of hunter-gatherers and even fairly sizable and complex tribal societies based on herding or agriculture have existed without any full-time specialized state organization, and these " stateless " forms of political organization have in fact prevailed for all of the prehistory and much of the history of the human species and civilization.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Arda is the name given to the Earth in a period of prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in The Lord of the Rings and related material once existed.

It is still an open question whether forms of pastoral mobility, such as transhumance ( alpiculture ), already existed in prehistory.

Prehistoric settlements best known for the eneolithic necropolis ( mid-5th millennium BCE radiocarbon dating ), a key archaeological site in world prehistory, eponymous of old European Varna culture and internationally considered the world's oldest large find of gold artifacts, existed within modern city limits.

It was coined in this context in reference to a form of art that had arguably existed since prehistory but was not regarded as a discrete category until the mid-twentieth century.

The dynasty existed in Vietnamese prehistory, so much of the lore from this time is now lost to the ages.

These trackways are wooden walkways constructed through prehistory and into the medieval period which allowed people and animals to cross the extensive areas of peatland, which can give us an insight into the economy and way of life of the societies that existed around the bog.

Similar to the theme of lost continents is the theme of lost planets, planets thought to have existed during prehistory only to be later destroyed by a global cataclysm.

For most of human prehistory, Marxian writers like Ernest Mandel and V. Gordon Childe argued, there existed no economic surplus product of any kind at all, except very small or incidental surpluses.

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization is a book first published in 1995 by Graham Hancock, in which he echoes 19th century writer Ignatius Donnelly, author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World ( 1882 ), in contending that some previously enigmatic ancient but highly advanced civilization had existed in prehistory, one which served as the common progenitor civilization to all subsequent known ancient historical ones.

According to Julien d ' Huy, such a motif would also have existed in European prehistory and would have a buffalo maiden as a heroine.