Sentences with phrase «permanent settlements»

This is very helpful in societies which require children's labor and is something that is only possible in societies with permanent settlements.

Additionally, the discoveries will provide us with more of what we need to plan successful human missions to the planet, to establish permanent settlements there.

In other words: they reduce circulation and push migrants into permanent settlement.

Not interested in forming permanent settlements, they did not appear to be such a threat to the Indian way of life.

It gave them political influence as a large group of voters; it gave them access to applying for land to make permanent settlements.

In Europe, there is a reduction in large carnivore diversity that coincides with the first permanent settlements of Homo in the continent, about 800,000 to 700,000 years ago, although this needs further research.

In 1652 the Dutch established the first permanent settlement in Cape Town.

Colonial era The first permanent settlement in French Louisiana was founded at Fort Maurepas,...

In 1623, William and Edward Hilton settled Cochecho Plantation, adopting its Abenaki name, making Dover the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire, and seventh in the United States.

Despite the lack of archeological evidence of permanent settlements on the island, Chumash legend holds that the American Indian population of the Channel Islands began on Anacapa.

Some hunter - gatherers along the lower Danube River were so good at fishing that they lived in more permanent settlements, known as fishing villages.

According to the city's website, Elizabethton was the first permanent settlement outside the original 13 colonies and the first majority - rule system of American democracy, called the Watauga Settlement.

The Indian Treaties and the Homestead Act of the 1830's and 40's encouraged permanent settlement of the area and Asa Dunton filed three claims in 1837.

Large, permanent settlements depending substantially on wild plants and marine food materialized in Mesopotamia well before agricultural states formed there.

These examples are crucial, Fry says, because our ancestors are thought to have lived as nomadic hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo lineage just over 2 million years ago in Africa until the appearance of agriculture and permanent settlements about 12,000 years ago.

That's about 2000 years earlier than suggested by previous studies focusing on a different, more selective set of genes known as the exome, but it's in line with recent archaeological findings that point to distinctly Tibetan permanent settlements appearing between 3600 and 5200 years ago, Yang says.

Next port, Ny Alesund, is the most northerly permanent settlement in the world and is home to a scientific research centre.

John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company opened their primary outpost, Fort Astoria, in 1811, making Astoria the first permanent settlement west of the Rocky Mountains.

From the first permanent settlement by British colonists to the Revolutionary War to the Civil War...

The first identifiable permanent settlement, Holderby's Landing, was founded in 1775 in what was then the Colony of Virginia, but the area had been sparsely settled by French as early as 1609.

Loreto was originally founded by Jesuit Missionaries in 1697 and remains the oldest permanent settlement in the Californias.

Today, Murray Cox, a computational biologist at New Zealand's Massey University, says a scenario like this may describe the murky origins of the first permanent settlements on Madagascar, home to about 22 million people today.

Did You Know: The first permanent settlement of Icelandic pioneers in the U.S. was established in Spanish Fork in the 1860s.

Meanwhile, areas in the Mountain West have proven adept at leveraging high - speed Internet access and lifestyle perks to lure well - educated families and late - career professionals into permanent settlement.

More people would have meant more permanent settlements and more corpses.

According to the city's website, Elizabethton was the first permanent settlement outside the original 13 colonies and the first majority - rule system of American democracy, called the Watauga Settlement.

The area developed as an assemblage of traders and merchants in the agricultural lands bordering the mostly unsettled areas to the north and providing a link from the south to the El Camino Real and then larger settlement of Natchitoches, the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase.

This city was the first permanent settlement on the west coast of the United States the first to have a United States post office west of the Rockies.

Wilson Price Hunt, arriving in the city in 1811 with the first European settlers but a permanent settlement wasn't established until 1864.

It was not until about 10,000 years ago that humans began to live in permanent settlements.

The first permanent settlement in the area was the «Tallygaroopna» sheep station, established in the early 1840s.

Under this scenario, EU citizens who wanted to get on a pathway to permanent settlement in the UK would need to qualify for work or family unification.

«We need to be clear that temporary protection does not automatically lead to permanent settlement in the UK.»

Folami also disclosed that Lagos has acquired five hectares of land, for the permanent settlement of the security operatives in Igbodu community in Epe, to curtail kidnapping.

Until recently, most of the region had no permanent settlements.

«So far, it has not been sufficiently tested whether and how successful fecal transplantation is for the permanent settlement of microbiota from a healthy donor to a patient,» said Alexander Loy of the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Research, University of Vienna.

Some 11,000 years ago, humans living in the ancient Middle East region called the Fertile Crescent shifted from a nomadic existence, based on hunting game and gathering wild plants, to a more sedentary lifestyle that would later give rise to permanent settlements.

The Natufians, who lived some 15,000 - 11,500 years ago, were of the first in the world to abandon nomadic life and settle in permanent settlements, setting up structures with stone foundations.

In northern Siberia, a region with no permanent settlements and few roads, there are only six year - round monitoring sites across seven time zones.

Meanwhile, in Russia and China, collectivization led to permanent settlements that degraded the land.

The visas are designated for senior career scientists who are leaders in their fields and want to come to Britain, and will allow them to work in the United Kingdom for an initial period of 3 years and 4 months, with a possible extension of 2 years and a permanent settlement option.

Still, agriculture may not have been required for year - round, permanent settlement of the Tibetan Plateau, says Mark Aldenderfer, an archaeologist at the University of California, Merced, who has excavated there for many years.

«We're starting on steps that will eventually lead to permanent settlement of the Moon and Mars,» Worden said.

Detailing their findings In the journal Antiquity, the researchers explained that the cave wasn't a permanent settlement, but it was used for brief stays.

SpaceX wants to go by 2024, while Mars One wants to land a permanent settlement there in 2032.

We went from a largely migratory, seasonal culture to ones of agriculture, farming and permanent settlement.

Several months later the Compromise of 1850 passed the Congress and President Millard Fillmore proclaimed it a «permanent settlement» of the extension of slavery question.