The Asmat of New Guinea have villages ranging up to 2,000 people, which is from 10 to 20 times the size of the average hunting-gathering settlement.
Cancún remained a small fishing-and-gathering settlement of about 100 Maya until 1970, when, after a three-year study of conditions by the Mexican government in association with private interests, the area was selected as a suitable site for an international holiday centre.
When he went to an Independence Day gathering in the settlement of Kedumim, the atmosphere reminded him, at first, of "the good old days of the kibbutzim".
She described Toynbee Hall as "a community of university men" who, while living there, held their recreational clubs and social gatherings at the settlement house...among the poor people and in the same style they would in their own circle.
People would have been well fed after the bountiful summer and autumn seasons, in most years, and be gathering in the home settlement after the time of work and travel.
Smith recounts how when cleanup first began, villagers from one settlement were gathering water hyacinth, which tend to collect a lot of oil, and piling it up onshore not far from the village well, where the oil could contaminate the drinking water.
JERUSALEM -- I just spent the evening in a small park overlooking occupied East Jerusalem at a gathering of the Israeli settlement movement's movers and shakers.
Most plans entail dismantling 25 to 50 Jewish settlements and gathering settlers into concentrated blocs.
Findings indicate that the population's rapid transition from a semi-nomadic hunting and gathering lifestyle to permanent settlements with municipally provided utilities is influencing present-day water usage patterns, public health perceptions, and the level of priority decision-makers place on water and wastewater management issues.
Many of these instances of selection may reflect the pressures that came to bear as people abandoned their hunting and gathering way of life for settlement and agriculture, a transition well under way in Europe and East Asia some 5,000 years ago.
One such zone seems to have been the remote Skourta plain, which separates part of northern Attica from Boeotia; preliminary surface survey (i.e., the estimation of settlement patterns by gathering of potsherds) carried out in and after 1985 suggests that it was perhaps deliberately left uncultivated in the Archaic period.
