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English
Noun
prehistorian (plural prehistorians)
- A student of, or expert in prehistory.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103:The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn."
2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 46:In the early 1930s, he fell under the spell of a wife-beating, alcoholic, Austrian occultist called Karl Maria Wiligut and a Dutch prehistorian called Herman Wirth, whose views further fed his fantastical illusions.
Translations
student of or expert in prehistory