Feminist scholars and archeologists such as Marija Gimbutas, Gerda Lerner, and Riane Eisler describe their notion of a " woman-centered " society surrounding Mother Goddess worship throughout prehistory ( Paleolithic and Neolithic Europe ) and ancient civilizations, by using the term matristic rather than matriarchal.

Some Neolithic flint tools recovered from the top of the Tor show that the site has been visited and perhaps occupied throughout human prehistory.

The is the time in Japanese prehistory from about 14, 000 BC to about 300 BC, when Japan was inhabited by a Neolithic culture which reached a considerable degree of cultural sophistication, above all in pottery, despite limited development of agriculture and no use of metal.

* The Neolithic Revolution ( around 10, 000 BP ), the initial transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture in prehistory

In archeological reality, saws date back to prehistory and most probably evolved from Neolithic stone or bone tools.

Archaeological evidence indicates contacts between China, Korea, and Japan since prehistory of the Neolithic period, and its continuation also at least in the Kofun period.

The archeological excavations from older Neolithic confirm that there were people in Bar even in prehistory.

It is unlikely that it is possible to reconstruct a historical Tower of Babel linguistic community in which all humans spoke a common language ( although we can say with confidence that large stone edifices built by large organized communities of people, which date to the Neolithic era at the earliest, weren't built by any culture on Earth until at least many tens of thousands of years after there was a hypothetical common language of all humans, or even of all Eurasians ), or to gain very specific insight about what the language the original proto-Eurasians or the earliest modern humans spoke, although the lack of instances of writing more than about 5, 500 years ago, despite the extensive recovery of earlier artifacts and art from prehistory, makes it unlikely that earlier humans had anything approaching a complete written language.

He published two influential volumes on the prehistory of Wales, with a particular interest in the Neolithic.

Constructed in circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of British prehistory, the Stones represent a part of an architectural tradition that was spread across Western Europe during this era.

They are comparable to the causewayed enclosures found elsewhere in the British Isles and many are of similar Neolithic date although others are from later in prehistory.

Being a stone circle, it was constructed at some point during the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age in British prehistory.

The range's exceptional density of rock art paintings-pictograms and engravings-petroglyphs, and the presence of many prehistoric vestiges, are remarkable testimonies to Neolithic prehistory.

Copper alloys have been known since prehistory — bronze gave the Bronze Age its name — and have many applications today, most importantly in electrical wiring.

During the 1950s and early 1960s, Gimbutas earned a reputation as a world-class specialist on the Indo-European Bronze Age, as well as on Lithuanian folk art and the prehistory of the Balts and Slavs, partly summed up in her definitive opus, Bronze Age Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe ( 1965 ).

Heathlands arose in prehistory as a consequence of Bronze Age farming activities and thus the great heathland commons of Hawley, Aldershot etc., were already ancient a thousand years ago.

The site shows signs of habitation in prehistory and the Middle Bronze Age.

When the term ' Wessex Culture ' was first coined, investigations into British prehistory were in their infancy and the unusually rich and well documented burials in the Wessex area loomed large in literature on the Bronze Age.

* J. M. Coles and A. F. Harding-The Bronze Age in Europe: an introduction to the prehistory of Europe, c. 2000 – 700 BC.

The Paleolithic ( also spelt Palaeolithic or Palæolithic ) Age, Era or Period, is a prehistoric period of human history distinguished by the development of the most primitive stone tools discovered ( Modes I and II ), and covers roughly 99 % of human technological prehistory.

The Stone Age is the first of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods:

The name of the Vandals has often been connected to that of Vendel, the name of a province in Uppland, Sweden, which is also eponymous of the Vendel period of Swedish prehistory, corresponding to the late Germanic Iron Age leading up to the Viking Age.

* Prior to 3500 BCE ( prehistory – Stone Age and Chalcolithic ): hunter-gatherer societies slowly giving way to farming and herding societies, and early metal-working in the last thousand years ;

As such, the Fourth Age marks the bridge from the fantastic fictional prehistory of earth to the real history.

Maggin contains descriptions of Krypton, mainly referencing the Silver Age version ; it describes the planet as a " failed star " with massive surface gravity and extremely hostile, glaciated conditions, which forced extreme adaptation and rapid evolution in the descendants of humanoid space travelers ( and their dogs ) who became stranded on its surface in prehistory.

The earliest human settlements were in prehistory: the oldest physical remains are from the late Stone Age.

The Plain of Jars is dated to the Iron Age ( 500 BCE to 500 CE ) and is one of the most fascinating and important sites for studying Southeast Asian prehistory.

However, the roots of civilization reach back to the period before writing — humanity's prehistory in the Paleolithic Era, or " Early Stone Age ".

Kostrzewski became professor of prehistory at the newly founded University of Poznań in 1919, and from 1934 conducted the excavation of the Iron Age settlement of Biskupin, which he continued after the war.

* Middle Stone Age, a period of African prehistory

Many finds from prehistory and early historical times confirm that Heidesheim am Rhein ’ s municipal area was settled as early as the New Stone Age ( 5500 to 2200 BC ).

The archeological museum houses sculptures and ruins of the most ancient version of Teramo ; from prehistory to the Roman Empire Age.

Wright surveys fewer societies in less detail than Diamond, but begins much earlier in human prehistory with the worldwide slaughter of megafauna whenever and wherever humans migrated to new lands in the Stone Age, including Neanderthal man.

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during the Early Modern period.

Moroiso became the archeological name for the Early Jōmon period of Japanese prehistory corresponding to the Moroiso pottery style, dated to around 5. 000 years before present.

In his book Early Irish history and mythology, first published in 1946, O ' Rahilly developed a model of Irish prehistory based on critical reading of early Irish literary sources, involving four waves of Celtic-speaking invaders ( see Early history of Ireland ).

According to the references given in this and Poland in the Early Middle Ages article, many scholars now believe that the Slavic tribes had not been present in Poland before the earliest medieval period, though the opposite view, predominant in Polish prehistory and protohistory in the past, is still represented.

Vendel era sword from ValsgärdeIn Swedish prehistory, the Vendel era ( 550-793 ) is the name given to a part of the Germanic Iron Age ( or, more generally, the Migration Period ).

* MacKie, E W 1998 Continuity over three thousand years of northern prehistory: the ‘ tel ’ at Howe, Orkney.

On the seabed off the west coast of the island rests a block of rock 22 km long and 11 km wide, which appears to have slid off the island largely intact at some point in prehistory, similar to the predicted future collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a geological fault on the neighboring island, La Palma.

Arriving in London in August 1932 he attended a conference on prehistory and protohistory at King's College London, attending at least two lectures which described the cult of the Mother Goddess.

Examining fired pottery shards from prehistory, scientists learned that during high-temperature firing, iron materials in clay record the exact state of Earth's magnetic field at that exact moment.

Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Ph. D., FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot ( born 25 July 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees ) is a prominent British archaeologist and highly regarded academic, noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites.

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 ".

Throughout its prehistory and early history, the region and its vicinity in the Yangtze River region was the cradle of unique local civilizations which can be dated back to at least the 15th century BC and coinciding with the later years of the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty in north China.

To supplement this income, Childe, who had mastered a variety of European languages, also worked as a translator for the publishers Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co and occasionally lectured in prehistory at the London School of Economics.

Whilst working at the Institute, Childe continued writing and publishing books dealing with archaeology and prehistory.

The prehistory of San Luis Obispo County is strongly influenced by the Chumash people who had significant settlement here at least as early as the Millingstone Horizon thousands of years before the present age.

The Chumash people thrived at a very early period in California prehistory, with some settlements dating to at least 10, 000 years before present.

Going back into prehistory, it is not known how many Swedish monarchs were named Eric before this one ( at least six were ), so it would be speculative to try to affix a mathematically accurate one here.

The amount of Swedish monarchs named Eric before Eric XIV ( at least seven ) is unknown, going back into prehistory, and none of them used numerals.

Sometimes their names are derived from European prehistory, at other times from local sites, often where they were first discovered.

2. 8 Ga. " Sm-Nd isotope studies of whole rock metasediment samples have constrained their mean protolith ages to between 3. 00 and 2. 86 Ga, indicating a short prehistory .... Zircons were separated from different localities and at various levels of the Belomorian tectonostratigraphical column.

The evidence is insufficient to determine if this outlier group of Niger – Congo language speakers represent a prehistoric range of a Niger – Congo linguistic region that has since contracted as other languages have intruded, or if instead, this represents a group of Niger – Congo language speakers who migrated to the area at some point in prehistory where they were an isolated linguistic community from the beginning.

Richard Harrison, professor of European prehistory at the University of Bristol and an expert on the Beaker people allowed his initial reaction to be quoted in a BBC documentary:

In 1971 a research excavation was initiated that went on until 1992 under the auspices of the Museum for prehistory at Halle.