While trapped on prehistoric Earth, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect see Slartibartfast's signature deep inside a glacier in ancient Norway.

While initially identified as a prehistoric plesiosaur, analysis later indicated that the body was the carcass of a basking shark.

While there are a few prehistoric genera that are now completely extinct, Thiornis ( Late Miocene -?

While Egypt as a part of the wider Ancient Near East had entered historicity since the Bronze Age, the Maghreb remained in the prehistoric period longer.

While never traveling again, Tylor continued to study the customs and beliefs of tribal communities, both existing and prehistoric ( based on archaeological finds ).

While there is evidence of prehistoric, probably Pictish earthworks in the grounds of the castle, the remains most visible today are of the castle constructed in the mid 15th century by Thomas Cochran ( later to become an Earl of Mar ( 1458-79 ).

While looking out of a window on a train between Yokohama and Tokyo, Morse discovered the Ōmori shell mound, the excavation of which opened the study in archaeology and anthropology in Japan, and shed much light on the material culture of prehistoric Japan.

While some scholars speculate that prehistoric Native Americans may have placed the mound in relation to this geological anomaly, others think there was nothing visible at ground level that would have captured their attention.

While the specific trends associated with a given period are not always agreed on among all scientists due to the subjective nature of art, broad similarities and patterns can be formed which work to augment the archaeological study or prehistoric man by forming observations and theories on which other archaeologists can develop.

While such a tripartite structure must have been common to all Indoeuropean peoples on accounts of its widespread traces in religion and myths from India to Scandinavia and from Rome to Ireland, it had disappeared from most societies since prehistoric times, with the notable exception of India.

While regular prehistoric outbreaks of Lodgepole Needle Miners have been confirmed through dendrochronology, historic records document outbreaks from 1903 to 1921, 1933 to 1941, and 1947 to 1963.

While existing from prehistoric times, the peak of trade extended from the 8th century until the late 16th century.

While employed there, Wilma shares various adventures with prehistoric superhero Captain Caveman, who ( in a secret identity ) also works for the newspaper ( a la Clark Kent ).

While employed there, she shared various adventures with prehistoric superhero Captain Caveman, who ( in a secret identity ) also works for the newspaper.

While the old museum always had a clear mandate to show archaeological relics ( to also include some rare medieval textiles and rug pieces ), the new museum began its life by featuring the exquisite Amlash pottery from the prehistoric Caspian Sea regions of Iran.

While a single late Bronze Age site has been discovered in the forest outside Appenzell, there is no evidence of a prehistoric settlement.

While a few tribes are medieval in their origin, mainly due to events in history, there are a few who date their origin back to one of the oldest prehistoric civilizations in world viz.

While Howard never dwells in theology, his version of prehistoric Mithraism is the religion closest resembling monotheism in his works.

While some prehistoric cultures, like the Adena culture, used mounds preferentially for burial, others used mounds for other ritual and sacred acts, as well as for secular functions.

* While the British ITV series Primeval mostly focuses on prehistoric life, several of its creatures, most specifically the Mer and Future predator, are from the future.

While long integrated into Kei Island society, residents of these settlements continue to value the historical origins of their ancestors.

While some other, extinct Homo species might have been ancestors of Homo sapiens, many were likely our " cousins ", having speciated away from our ancestral line.

While often seen as rejecting Darwin's theory of branching evolution for a more linear Lamarckian " biogenic law " of progressive evolution, this is not accurate: Haeckel used the Lamarckian picture to describe the ontogenic and phylogenic history of the individual species, but agreed with Darwin about the branching nature of all species from one, or a few, original ancestors.

While our earliest Hominid ancestors were probably frugivores or omnivores, there is evidence that earlier Homo species, and possibly also australopithecine species utilised larger animals for subsistence.

While situated in the valley of the Anduin River, the Hobbits lived close by the Éothéod, the ancestors of the Rohirrim, and this led to some contact between the two.

While all this legal maneuvering has been going on, many traditional practitioners have continued to practice as they and their ancestors have always done.

While the dates of origin and other evolutionary details of the European bowed yoke lyres continue to be disputed among organologists, there is general agreement that none of them were the ancestors of modern orchestral bowed stringed instruments, as once was thought.

While many of his Grimaldi ancestors had served in the military, none had ever acquitted themselves with more distinction than Louis.

While it is likely that some of the Gullahs ’ ancestors came from Africa with a working knowledge of Guinea Coast Creole English, and this language influenced the development of Gullah in various ways, it is also clear that most slaves taken to America did not have prior knowledge of a creole language in Africa.

While these princes were ancestors of Minamoto lineages, they were not themselves of the Minamoto clan.

While his main objective was to give historical legitimisation to germanising of Poles that found themselves under Prussian rule, the praise of a mythical genocide conducted by German ancestors against other national groups would eventually become a means of legitimising claims to further eastern territories.

While the early amniotes resembled their amphibian ancestors in many respects, a key difference was the lack of an otic notch at the back margin of the skull roof.

While Goofy is still clumsy, he works hard to be a good father towards Max, at one time reprimanding him to take personal responsibility by telling him of one of their ancestors, Eliot Goof, an FBI agent with a never-give-up attitude ( a clear pun on Eliot Ness ).

While his two ancestors were given the title of Maharaja ( king ), Chandragupta I is described in his inscriptions as Maharajadhiraj ( king of kings ) signifying a rise in the family fortunes. He gained control over many territories by conquests and favourable marriage alliances.

While moneyers had earlier issued coins with portraits of ancestors, Caesar ’ s was the first Roman coinage to feature the portrait of a living individual.

While a close relationship between these and ungulates was already proposed by Frank Evers Beddard in 1900 and is generally accepted today, cetaceans have diverged so radically from their ancestors ' lifestyle as to confound analyses of fossils and perhaps even DNA.

While this is only one example out of thousands of enslaved persons, it does mean that not all slavery reparations can be determined by racial self-identification alone ; reparations would have to include a determination of the free or slave status of one's African-American ancestors, as well as when and by whom they were enslaved and denied rights such as property ownership.

While a rafting voyage of four months or more might seem implausible, the ancestors of Brachylophus may have been preadapted for such a journey by having water requirements that can be satisfied by food alone, as well as comparatively long egg incubation periods.

While adherents of the Spanish ( Anjou ) line argue that princes of foreign nationality can still succeed to the French crown, others hold that French nationality of both the claimant and his ancestors is a requirement.

While Tolkien represents the Rohirrim, who developed out of the Éothéod, by Anglo-Saxon culture and language, their ancestors are given Gothic attributes.

While organisms have ancestry graphs and progeny graphs via sexual reproduction, a gene has a single chain of ancestors and a tree of descendants.

While none of their works can be considered direct ancestors of a Spanish literary tradition, it was out of the cultural milieu fostered by such intellectual energy that the first written manifestations of a Spanish literature proper arise.

# While there may also be a cultural connection between the southern deluge cycle and the cosmogonic scenario of the cosmic egg ( i. e., via the " thunder-egg ," " origin of ancestors hero from egg or gourd ," and " origin of agriculture and mankind from gourd " myths ), the fundamental linkage for all these typologies is the early Taoist, innovative perception of a shared symbolic intention that accounts for, and supports, a particular cosmogonic, metaphysical, and mystical vision of creation and life.

While some residents maintain the traditional skills of their ancestors, most now hunt with guns.

While scholars debate the exact functions of these sculptures, Hawaiian oral traditions describe that kii could represent various entities, including akua ( spirits, divinities ) and manifestations of natural phenomena, and could serve as āumaka sculptures ( family or personal gods, deified ancestors ).