Sentence examples for continuum of subsistence from inspiring English sources

Because some resource management practices, such as intensively tending nondomesticated nut-bearing trees, bridge the boundary between foraging and farming, archaeologists investigating agricultural origins generally frame their work in terms of a continuum of subsistence practices.

Just a matter of subsistence?

"Expand the means of subsistence," he said.

That is the nature of subsistence.

In the fourth of them, The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa (1998), he placed a number of his earlier concerns within a more comparative context, considering the evolution and viability of subsistence pastoral societies in a rapidly changing world and the larger dynamics of ageing.

Islands of capitalism existed amid a sea of subsistence labour.

Invasion threatens to overlap the narrow margin of subsistence.

Kitwarotith, the son of subsistence farmers, is typical.

For him food is merely an indispensable means of subsistence.

The plots of subsistence farmers harlequinned the land.

At the time that these economists wrote, most workers were actually living near the subsistence level, and population appeared to be trying to outrun the means of subsistence.