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You can go back, prehistorically, to Hanna-Barbera’s “The Flintstones,” the “modern Stone Age family” comedy, which premiered in 1960 on ABC.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2021

The very assets that made them prehistorically indestructible — size, horns — turned out to be liabilities.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2021

Stone-tool-using farmers similarly replaced hunters prehistorically throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

With swarms of these things filling the sky, they’d not only have to worry about getting scorched by the fire, they’d also have to watch their backs for prehistorically large poison bugs.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

His ascent may have been more dignified than our own, and in one way at least he prehistorically showed more gentle intentions; 'twas we who kept the claws!

From The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend by Dargan, Olive Tilford