Sentence examples for earliest human societies from inspiring English sources

The book traces the development of political order from the earliest human societies, which were small groups of hunter-gatherers.

Maitland introduces the reader to the Great Chthonic Terror of the earliest human societies — "that the dark may swallow the light...

But it is primitive only in the sense that its connection to the sacred ties today's fighters to the earliest human societies.

Dogs were probably the first animal to be domesticated and seem to have assumed considerable importance in early human societies.

For this reason, he theorizes, the people with the greatest vocal control in early human societies became religious leaders.

Anthropologists studying living hunter-gatherers have radically revised their view of how early human societies were structured, a shift that yields new insights into how humans evolved away from apes.

Early human societies that hunted for survival admired the wolf and tried to imitate its habits, but in recent centuries the wolf has been widely viewed as an evil creature, a danger to humans (especially in Eurasia), a competitor for big game animals, and a threat to livestock.

In earlier human societies knowledge was often mutable.

Ethical relations between groups did not and could not have emerged spontaneously in early human societies, as Darwin knew.

Dancing may have similar effects, he says, and like singing is thought to have been an important part of early human societies.

No one can answer this question with certainty, but we do know that earlier human societies collapsed when faced with other kinds of profound changes in climate.