prehistorian

English

Noun

prehistorian (plural prehistorians)

1. 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

• Catalan: prehistoriador (ca) m
• Galician: prehistoriador (gl)
• German: Vorgeschichtler m, Vorgeschichtlerin f
• Volapük: (male or female) rujenavan, (male) hirujenavan, jirujenavan