settlement

With such a favorable location, about 300 to 400 people lived in a sizable, permanent settlement.

Which for too long have held this agency and its surrounding settlements in a virtual state of siege.

The Natufians had a different settlement pattern from that of their predecessors.

In predynastic times, the Wadi Digla may have served as a trade route between the Memphis region and the Near East, to judge from the unusual concentration of foreign artifacts found in the predynastic settlement of Maadi.

As was the case with the cities of Hierakonpolis and Elkab, the combination within the same area of both desert pasturage and alluvial arable land (land suitable for growing crops) was a particularly attractive one for early settlement; this combination no doubt contributed to the prosperity of the Memphis region from early predynastic times.

The east-west rail lines stimulated the settlement and agricultural development of the Midwest.

Enabling farmers to speed their products to the East, railroads increased the value of farmland and promoted additional settlement.

In one settlement that was only partially excavated, archaeologists have already found four of these structures.

But do you think one structure would be enough to hold the surplus for an entire settlement?

Archaeologist Donald Henry suggests that the combination of a rich habitat and sedentism (permanent, year-round settlement) led to a dramatic increase in human population.

This increase of food supply was due perhaps half to the increase of cultivated area, particularly by migration and settlement in the central and western provinces, and half to greater productivity - the farmers’ success in raising more crops per unit of land.

The first documented English mill was in the eighth century, but three centuries later about 5,000 were recorded, suggesting that every settlement of any size had its mill.

We will be looking at the original settlement of the Americas next, and I’ll spend the next few classes talking about the Clovis people and the two big questions archaeologists have about them.

But in the late twentieth century, archaeologists discovered the remains of a sophisticated people whose settlement might have been the hub of a civilization few people even thought existed.

Careful excavation and documentation of layers in a mound can reveal a wealth of information about the everyday life of a people in a settlement over many periods of occupation.

Abu Hureyra was founded about 9500B.C, a small village settlement of cramped pit dwellings (houses dug partially in the soil) with reed roofs supported by wooden uprights.

With such a favorable location, about 300 to 400 people lived in a sizable, permanent settlement.

However, as the climate dried up, the forests retreated from the vicinity of the settlement.

By 8200B.C., drought conditions were so severe that the people abandoned their long-established settlement, perhaps dispersing into smaller camps.

Therefore, these social traits helped to produce the nomadic and daring settlers who kept pushing westward beyond the fringes of settlement.

OK, wait. I see where you're heading with this, but before we go into how European settlement affected the ecosystem, tell me this, what kind of environment do beavers live in?

In all probability it was the fertile plain of Latium, where the Latins who founded Rome originated, that created the habits and skills of landed settlement, landed property, landed economy, landed administration, and a land-based society.

This region has a semiarid climate, and for 50 years after its settlement, it supported a low-intensity agricultural economy of cattle ranching and wheat farming.

Anyway, uh…Catalhoyuk wasn’t the first agricultural settlement in the near east, but it was pretty early, settled about 9000 years ago in the Neolithic period.

And ... umm... the settlement...ah...town really, lasted about a thousand years and grew to a size of about eight or ten thousand people.

One of the things that make the settlement of this size impressive is the time period.

Early Mayan settlements date back over 3,000 years and say from about 600 to 900 C.E.

These cattle people may have moved between fixed settlements during the wet and dry seasons, living off hunting in the dry months and their own livestock and agriculture during the rains.

In evolutionary terms, early settlements and agriculture in the Fertile Crescent around 10,000 years ago created a completely new environment for any wild animals that were flexible and curious enough to exploit it.

The pressure is now on the unions to reach a settlement.

How Roslin's arguments against settlement could possibly win?

It is the ways to delay the settlement of debts.

the settlement of the American West

We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.