"prehistorian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103",
          "text": "The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as \"a woman holding a bison horn.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 46",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A student of, or expert in prehistory."
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "prehistoriador"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
          "word": "prehistoriador"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Vorgeschichtler"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Vorgeschichtlerin"
        },
        {
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "rujenavan"
        },
        {
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hirujenavan"
        },
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          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
          "word": "jirujenavan"
        }
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  "word": "prehistorian"
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          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103",
          "text": "The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as \"a woman holding a bison horn.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 46",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A student of, or expert in prehistory."
      ],
      "links": [
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prehistoriador"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
      "word": "prehistoriador"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Vorgeschichtler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Vorgeschichtlerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rujenavan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hirujenavan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "student of or expert in prehistory",
      "word": "jirujenavan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prehistorian"
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