prehistorian

Pryor is that lovely-sounding thing, a prehistorian.

The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor 2010

(Childe was an eminent British prehistorian whose Marxism got him into hot water in his native Australia; during the early cold war, he maintained contact with archaeologists in the Soviet Union.) "Would a die-hard anticommunist really recommend a Marxist archaeologist to a student?" demands Golub.

Boing Boing 2008

I turned up a 2006 article by Zapata et al. which takes note of both this hypothesis and that of Brian Hayden, a leading prehistorian at Simon Fraser University in Canada, who suggests that cultivated foods were first consumed as luxury or prestige items, rather than staples, as part of the phenomenon of feasting that is common to complex hunter-gatherer societies, an idea which seems to further strengthen and complement Wadley and Martin's hypothesis.

Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

As a prehistorian I don't follow Classical studies closely and was surprised that someone had to write a book correcting the revisionists

The Antikythera Mechanism 2006

And as Binford had argued in his debate with the prehistorian Glynn Isaac, an archaeologist who assumed that early humans were great hunters might misinterpret a collection of gazelle bones as evidence of a glorious Great Hunt rather than recognizing them as the gnawed scraps left behind by hungry hyenas.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Earlier archaeologists, most notably the British prehistorian Glyn Daniel, had concluded from stylistic similarities and differences among stone monuments that the earliest of them were constructed on Crete, Malta, and other sites in the Mediterranean.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Such was the power of the novel explanation for the Neolithic Revolution that French prehistorian Jacques Cauvin first put forward during the 1970s.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

The phrase was coined by the Australian prehistorian V.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Mellaart was skeptical: “Usually when people wish to show you something, it is nearly always things like coins, Roman lamps or Byzantine bronzes which do not interest me as a prehistorian.”

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Just as Binford had argued, in his debate with the French prehistorian François Bordes, that the Neandertals used different tools for different tasks, so did he and like-minded colleagues contend that different cultures reflected different adaptive strategies.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005