Dinosaurs can be Hollywood monsters, objects of scientific fascination and everything in between, but at the root of it, our fascination with them stems from wanting to know more about the prehistory we share.
"It is impossible for me to contemplate prehistory in the abstract.
At the same time he is fascinated by the most remote and mysterious aspects of prehistory.
One of them is even called "Home", and for both authors the building or restoration of their own houses is woven into the feelings they have for their subject.Francis Pryor is an archaeologist of British prehistory who has excavated Neolithic and Bronze Age sites at Etton and Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire.
By the time he was 25 he would have mixed with professors of prehistory and epigraphy from all over Europe, with the curator of the Louvre, with the premier archaeologists of France, and with the law.
If Dr Florez is right about the prehistory, SIGMA's findings will also be relevant to other countries in the region with large mestizo populations descended from indigenous peoples.
Mr Stigler addresses many other issues in his essays, investigating topics as varied as the 17th-century prehistory of statistics, the misattribution of scientific results (almost universal, he argues), and the trial of the Pyx, a method of sampling coinage used from the 12th century through to the 1980s by the Royal Mint in London.
ARTISTIC interpretations of prehistory rarely present landscapes that embody harmony and tranquillity.
Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory.
Mr Pryor rejects the Hobbesian view of prehistory as nasty, brutish and short.
It is actually a frog, but so different from other frogs that it has its own taxonomic family; and because its closest relatives are in the Seychelles, the discovery had implications for theories of palaeogeography and species migration in prehistory.
