Sentence examples for descent lines from inspiring English sources
New descent lines might also be founded through a similar reworking of oral tradition.
If these are descent lines, then the calpulli resembled quite closely a type of kin group called by anthropologists a ramage, or a conical clan.
A number of descent lines were represented in each village council, and members of each descent line were spread through a number of villages in a given area.
His trees show that the four major Ashkenazi lineages in fact form clusters within descent lines that were established in Europe some 10,000 to 20,000 years ago.
The thick red (ascent) and blue (descent) lines show the 11-point (55 s) running mean.
The thin red (ascent) and blue (descent) lines indicate the mean ε UAV value and the thin black lines show the lower and upper bounds on ε UAV estimates (10% error bounds, i.e., 10% change in least squares fit error).
A characteristic of the descent line system is its flexibility.
The other major system that Polynesians used to organize descent groups is known as the descent line.
The descent line in Samoa, for example, consists of a group of people tracing descent in the male line from a common mythical ancestor.
Chiefs or nobles occupied positions of high status that were inherited in a single descent line by primogeniture.
What passed down through the descent line were titles, each of which had rank and prestige attached to it.
