The newcomers brought ancestry
from nomadic groups originating on the Pontic Steppe, a grassland region extending from Ukraine to Kazakhstan.
Not exact matches
The belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, chose a small
nomadic group of Jews
from the 200 million people then alive to be his «favored people» provided they followed some rural laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine equals Judaism.
In addition to foraging for plants and berries (when available),
nomadic groups hunted caribou, reindeer and other animals for food, typically with spears or darts (thrown
from atlatl boards).
DNA samples revealed that a
group of
nomadic herders, the Yamnaya, swept into Europe
from the plains of today's Russia and Ukraine sometime between 5000 and 4800 years ago, bringing their culture and, perhaps, the Proto - Indo - European language with them.
Technically, anthropologists distinguish civilizations in which many of the people live in cities and get their food
from agriculture,
from band societies, in which people live in
nomadic or semi-
nomadic groups, and tribal societies, in which people may live in small semi-permanent settlements.
Until now, researchers have primarily thought that farmers entering Europe
from the east either drove out hunter - gatherers or quickly drew
nomadic groups into a lifestyle of crop growing and animal raising.
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Forbidden City addresses how Qing rulers incorporated their Manchu
nomadic traditions, adopted cultural elements
from ethnic
groups, and endeavored to create a diverse government and maintain societal harmony» — Virginia Museum of Fine Art
With reference points ranging
from Sudanese cliff dwellings and Native American amphitheaters to classical Greek forms to the mobile structures of
nomadic and seafaring
groups, Rudofsky's stated goal was to «break down our narrow concepts of the art of building by introducing the unfamiliar world of nonpedigreed architecture» — a notable early instance of non-Eurocentric thinking in the American art establishment.