You are looking at 1-8 of 8 entries
Bronze Age
The prehistoric period during which bronze was the principal material used for tools and weapons. The transition from the Copper Age is difficult to fix, as is that to the Iron Age which followed. It ...
historic
[Ge]Referring to the period after the advent of written historical records in a given geographical region. Historic Native American sites date to the time after the arrival of Europeans.
history
History repeats itself comment on circumstances that replicate a previous situation; proverbial saying, mid 19th century. The comment was wryly extended by Rupert Brooke, in a letter of 1906, to ...
Iron Age
The prehistoric period of human culture which began in Europe around 1000 bc (after the Bronze Age), during which iron was the main material used for making tools and weapons.
landnam
A local phase of forest clearance by humans during prehistory, detected in pollen diagrams, and indicating brief agricultural use which was often followed by abandonment and then natural regeneration ...
palaeontological area
An area in the USA which has been designated as containing significant (usually fossil) remains of flora and (non‐human) fauna dating from prehistoric times.
Stone Age
Those periods of the past when metals were unknown and stone was used as the main material for missiles, as hammers, for making tools for such tasks as cutting and scraping and, later, as spear ...
