It's not actually a prequel, but rather is set in the same universe but earlier in the time line. He made the coice to not make a direct prequel to essentially avoid being repetative in the material.
From Wikipedia:
The film began development in the early 2000s as a fifth entry in the
Alien franchise, with both Scott and director James Cameron developing
ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott's 1979 science
fiction horror film Alien. By 2003, the project was sidelined by the
development of Alien vs. Predator, and remained dormant until 2009
when Scott again showed interest. A script by Spaihts acted as a
prequel to the events of the Alien films, but Scott opted for a
different direction to avoid repeating cues from those films. In late
2010, he brought Lindelof onto the project to rewrite Spaihts' script,
and together they developed a separate story that precedes the story
of Alien but is not directly connected to that franchise. According to
Scott, though the film shares "strands of Alien's DNA, so to speak",
and takes place in the same universe, Prometheus will explore its own
mythology and ideas.
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