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Перевод: prehistoric

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Тезаурус:

1. Watkins' inclusion of churches as mark points is particularly controversial: these dated from Saxon times at the earliest, whereas leys were claimed to be prehistoric.
2. The National Monuments Record Photographic Archive is the fourth category, and Buildings for the Age: New Building Types 1900-;1939 (1982) and Farms in England: Prehistoric to Present (1983) are representative titles.
3. This is vital information for any understanding of prehistoric motivation and vastly increases the range of data available from a ceremonial site.
4. The second difficulty is that, although the Kalahari Bushmen may have a similar technology to European prehistoric hunters and gatherers, their economic situation is very different.
5. Even if they were first established in prehistoric times, knowledge use and even construction of leys may have continued well into the medieval period, perhaps as the secret inheritance of certain esoteric orders.
6. Items so far recovered include prehistoric flint instruments, medieval pottery, a seventeenth-century water wheel, eighteenth-century clay ovens for scalding Devonshire cream, and nineteenth-century cider presses and apple crushers.
7. All over the south and south-west of England and up into the midlands and the borders of Wales we may encounter ancient hill forts on hill tops or upper slopes, still marked by the visible line of prehistoric ditches.
8. The prehistoric trees looked as if they had been felled the day before, but they were as sterile as hot bricks from a kiln and probably one hundred and thirty million years old.
9. Beyond them, the rib-cage of a gigantic prehistoric leviathan poked upwards, black against the delicate hues of the sky - the remains of the burned-out Reichstag .
10. Prehistoric drawings of owls from sites in France and North Africa: snowy owls top left and middle left; European eagle owls top right and bottom left; and barn owls bottom right: see text.
11. Whilst much work remains to be done, energy anomalies do seem to exist at prehistoric sites.
12. The earliest known inhabitant of my village, who had tilled its fields, fished its river, delighted at the sunshine and huddled around his smoking fire in the winter damp, who shared all our human emotions, love, hate, joy, sorrow and pain was now no more than a box of prehistoric Crunchie bars dried almost to dust.
13. Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual, the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York, recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco, a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier's part that, for a twentieth-century Latin American, going back to one's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world.