What is "prehuman"

Usage examples of "prehuman".

Claiming that their city was older than Nova Babylonia, they implausibly attributed certain gigantic prehuman and prehominid ruins in its vicinity to their ancestors.

And it was all one swirl on a river that swept from the peaceful prehuman landscape where he had been to the unimaginable Danellian future.

The society there, and its beliefs, always have been founded on colossal prehuman ruins, and evidently has often brought forth millennialist prophets.

These remain, even now, in the condition of those prehuman apes who are concerned only with economics, sociology, and politics, hurling bricks at each other and licking then their own wounds.

Lorcan had ended ages of chaos when he and a wizard of a prehuman race had hidden the Throne of Malkar forever.

In fact, there is an ancient compendium of prehuman glyphics that Kane is said to have authored.

Ageless offspring of a priestess of a vanished prehuman race and the winged god they had worshipped.

Golden Age were actually rediscoveries of alien science, pickings gleaned from the scrapheaps of vanished prehuman civilizations.

The Krelran were an enigma even among the mysterious elder races of prehuman Earth.

What bearing does prehuman history have on my present state of affairs?

Now he was surrounded by scores of savage batrachians, alone in a lost city whose prehuman antiquity his very presence blasphemed.

A hemisphere of bloodstone, huge as the heavens, brooded in the center of this prehuman dome.

And still more remotely, still deeper behind all these faces, slept remoter, deeper, older faces, prehuman, animal, vegetable, stony, as if the last man on earth in the moment before death were recalling once again with the speed of dream all the forms of past ages when the universe was young.

Now that there were Japanese living on the Moon, Brind suspected the boxes would stay sealed forever, if only so they could serve as samples of the Moon as it used to be in its pristine, prehuman condition.

Our prehuman ancestors went in for more reliable senses, like vision and hearing.