Definition of "prehistorian"

The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn."

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103

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.

2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 46