prehistoric

CEFRB1

/prˌihɪˈstɔrɪk/

adjective

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Was it then in a pre-historic time that the Romans wandered into these lands?
The cartoon image of prehistoric woman being dragged by the hair by her caveman-husband probably conditions the perceptions of archaeologists far more than they realize.
Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That’s all prehistoric.

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Was it then in a pre-historic time that the Romans wandered into these lands?
1832 October, Foreign Quarterly Review, page 369
The cartoon image of prehistoric woman being dragged by the hair by her caveman-husband probably conditions the perceptions of archaeologists far more than they realize.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 137
Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That’s all prehistoric.
1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links

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From pre- (“before”) + historic, q.v., similar to slightly earlier ante-historic.