Sentence examples for world settlements from inspiring English sources

Had it not been for the agriculture of local American Indian tribes, already tragically decimated by European diseases, the Plymouth colony would surely have followed earlier New World settlements into extinction.

Dated to about 2627 B.C.E., it preceded all other known New World settlements by nearly 800 years.

This "edge of the world" settlement is home to just 450 hardy souls.

And the dense, complicated cluster of Getty structures--there are 11--is reminiscent of some Old World settlement.

Racial slavery, Davis insists, was neither accidental nor marginal; it was "an intrinsic and indispensable part of New World settlement".

A rephrasing of Theodosius Dobzhansky's famous maxim is appropriate here: "Nothing in the study of the New World settlement makes sense except in the light of evolution".

But the list of evolutionary events that interacted to shape the current and fascinating pattern of biological and cultural variation among Native Americans is much more extensive and will illuminate future debates around New World settlement.

Just to cite some examples, the debate around the timing and autochthonous-ancestral character of the Clovis culture pervaded much of the archeological approaches to the settlement of the three Americas, even when no clearly assigned Clovis remains were ever found in South America, and it still permeates many of the reviews about the New World settlement (Dillehay 2009; Waters et al. 2011).

The combined evidence coming from paleoclimatological records as well as the age of archeological sites in Northeastern Asia and Alaska during the terminal Pleistocene suggests that the initial phase of New World settlement is the expansion of a main Asian stock toward marginal geographical and climatic areas.

Venezuela actually takes its name from Lake Maracaibo's water-world settlements.

Scientific curiosity alone cannot initiate nor drive such off-world settlement and concerted impetus and public support for such an endeavor is shown to be constrained by human attention span.