Quotes About Prehistoric

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

All around them spreads a phantasmagoric, Ordovician fairy tale.

back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.

mammoth off their

Tyrannosaurus rex, the

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

Les spécialistes reconnaissent de six à onze espèces d'Hominines antérieures à l'homme.

Homo erectus ne se réfugie plus dans les arbres, c'est un véritable chasseur qui parcourt de grandes distances en milieu découvert. Il est bien adapté à la chaleur des savanes et des steppes. Il est peut-être le premier à posséder une peau nue, capable de transpirer.

Les premiers restes de néandertaliens furent découverts en 1830 dans la caverne d'Engis près de Liège (Belgique) et en 1848 dans la carrière Forbes à Gibraltar.

Grace was joining him at his request, to assist him in staring out at the swamp while they talked about Area X. Because he'd thought a change of setting - leaving the confines of the concrete coffin - might help soften her animosity. Before he realized just how truly hellish and prehistoric the landscape was, and thus now pre-hysterical as well. Look out upon this mosquito orgy, and warm to me, Grace.

The beast looked like a small dinosaur, with a long, serpentine neck.

In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

In that prehistoric time, before the Internet, before information floated in the ozone, I was a soccer novice who had never heard of Socrates until somebody pointed him out - swarthy, shaggy, tall, slender, mysterious.

archaeological evidence consists mainly of fossilised bones and stone tools. Artefacts made of more perishable materials – such as wood, bamboo or leather – survive only under unique conditions. The common impression that pre-agricultural humans lived in an age of stone is a misconception based on this archaeological bias. The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made of wood.

The dog was the first animal domesticated by Homo sapiens, and this occurred before the Agricultural Revolution.

Why, then, did it disappear 45,000 years ago? Of course, if diprotodons had been the only large animal to disappear at this time, it might have been just a fluke. But more than 90 percent of Australia's megafauna disappeared along with the diprotodon

The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish.

The earth of a hundred millennia ago was walked by at least six different species of man. It's

When the first Americans marched south from Alaska into the plains of Canada and the western United States, they encountered mammoths and mastodons, rodents the size of bears, herds of horses and camels, oversized lions and dozens of large species the likes of which are completely unknown today, among them fearsome sabre-tooth cats and giant ground sloths that weighed up to eight tons and reached a height of twenty feet.

It was only 400,000 years ago that several species of man began to hunt large game on a regular basis,

A human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here!