Sentence examples for past subsistence from inspiring English sources

The first exaggerates the role of megamammals in past subsistence systems.

The remains of cultivated plants confirmed that plant resources formed an important part of the past subsistence strategies.

In the past, many subsistence societies have in fact adopted this view, expecting old people to retreat to the wilderness to die when they can no longer contribute to the communal welfare.

Fuel management during the Paleolithic periods is an important issue to understand past human subsistence.

We investigated the 7R distribution in South Amerindians (18 populations, 568 individuals) and verified an increase in its frequency in populations with a recent past of subsistence means based in hunter-gathering (average 58%) when compared to agriculturalists (48%).

The culture is taken within the context of the current linguistic affiliation and information of past and present subsistence practices.

Not coincidentally, average incomes in Botswana have grown faster than anywhere else in the world in the past 35 years, from bare subsistence to over $3,000 a year.

In the past, farming was almost entirely a subsistence affair with little grown except for maize, and the granaries visible from the road show that this remains the staple food.

The primitive subsistence economy that in past centuries had nourished a large population of poor peasants was being eroded by new factors, notably the development of large estates owned by magnates enriched in the imperialist wars and devoted to cash crops worked by slaves and day labourers.

It soon emerged that Bez, who has spent the past few years living a near subsistence existence in a commune in Herefordshire, is not standing as an independent in the Martin Bell tradition – he never did have the makings of a solo artist.

The region traditionally relies on subsistence agriculture, and the past few years have seen devastating droughts.