1821 S. T. Coleridge Let. 8 Dec. (1971) V. 191 The best are the mythological and palaeological Articles.

1879 Theosophist Nov. 36/2 The most interesting specimens in the palæological department are the implements and arms of the stone age.

1948 Far Eastern Q. 7 385 On paleological grounds, he dates it [sc. an inscription] in the latter part of the fourth century.

1996 J. Petropoulos Art as Politics in Third Reich vii. 213 Some of the objects..were of ‘prehistorical’ origin and hence were more palaeological artifacts than they were works of art.

1956 S. Arieti in Amer. Anthropologist 58 31 A culture may be particularly rich in paleological ways of thinking because the general character of the culture is such as to predispose to a paleologic, analogic, subjective outlook rather than to an Aristotelian, rational, objective vision of the world.

1981 G. Kern in G. E. Slusser et al. Bridges to Fantasy 190 The primary process (unconscious creation, paleological thinking) has fused with the secondary process (the conscious conventions of society) to form a tertiary or artistic process.

2001 L. R. Aiken Dying, Death & Bereavement (ed. 4) iii. 84 In a fourth type of suicidal thinking, paleological thinking, the person responds with the act of suicide to accusatory delusions or hallucinations.