Sentence examples for subsistence technology from inspiring English sources

They most likely had a subsistence technology in which a few part-time specialists produced luxury items such as personal ornaments and the shell and stone valuables that were used, mostly in the western Carolines, for ceremonial payments.

Consequently, we argue that in a context of ecological uncertainty, these societies would have developed flexible strategies in terms of subsistence, technology and settlement patterns.

Moreover, this study has the intention of integration the anthracological record with the archaeological data already published concerning subsistence, technology and paleoecology to a better understanding to human behaviour during this period.

It is suggested that chronological patterns obtained by temporal frequency distributions should be strengthened by independent evidence provided by qualitative information on the reorganization of hunter gatherer societies (e.g.; changes in burial practices, subsistence, technology, etc)., indispensable to better evaluate the increase in population size and prehistoric demography.

Remarkably, their technical culture is clearly overspecialized in subsistence technology (Whiten et al. 1999) and completely lacks fighting tools.

Others use global palaeoclimate records to argue for the mandatory beginnings of agriculture during the Holocene, by linking them to the rate of innovation of subsistence technology or subsistence-related social organization [ 23– 25].

At least three periods with different cultural features, involving technology, subsistence and behavior, are determined from the available evidence.

Comprehensive analyses of these sites have addressed Magdalenian technology subsistence, group mobility in the landscape, social manifestations such as ornament and artistic expression, and site-internal spatial organisation.

This phenomenon likely affected distributions and character of both floral and faunal resources, altering human perception of the surrounding landscape and potentially leading to reorganization of technologies, subsistence behavior, and land-use strategies.

The economy's vulnerability to the weather is heightened by the fact that less than one-third of cropland is irrigated and that much farming is done at subsistence level without modern technology.

The synthesis and discussion which follows offers a state-of-the-art perspective on how the primary Palaeolithic data can be assessed within local or regional geomorphic, paleoenvironmental and chronological contexts; here, our focus is on spatio-temporal discontinuities, trends in subsistence strategies and lithic technology, as well as potentially emerging biogeographical patterns.