Sentence examples for mode of subsistence from inspiring English sources

He objected that the Garden of Eden was a garden, and thus represented a horticultural rather than a hunter-gatherer mode of subsistence.

The mere size of the reserves has tended to obscure the relation to the area requisite for subsistence to the mode of subsistence.

Some hunting and gathering were done to supplement the diet, and in drought years, which occurred on the average of one year in five, crop failure made hunting and gathering the sole mode of subsistence.

The term "Neolithic revolution" was coined in the nineteen-twenties, by the archeologist V. Gordon Childe, to describe the transition from hunting-and-gathering — the dominant mode of subsistence for the two hundred thousand years before the last ice age — to domestication and agriculture.

The arrival and spread of agriculture, temporally corresponding with the age estimates for most of the haplogroups characteristic of Finns, might be a sign of population size increase enabled by the new mode of subsistence, resulting in reduced drift and accumulation of genetic diversity in the population.

As pressure on land increases, the pastoralists' mode of subsistence is left in a situation of worsening vulnerability.

These include changing modes of subsistence, shifting populations, environmental disruptions, and social inequalities.

For the indigenous people of Southern Africa the frontiers between different modes of subsistence presented new dangers and opportunities.

The modes of subsistence of the early Byzantine inhabitants of the Balkans are subject to intense discussion.

Thus, the Dutch, and many subsequent social scientists, believed they belonged to a single population following different modes of subsistence: hunting, foraging, beachcombing, and herding.

This genetic difference may have arisen from an ancient border between two different immigration waves that arrived at different times and could represent two different modes of subsistence, i.e., hunter-gathering (east) and animal husbandry/farming (west 9.