Definition of preagricultural in English:
preagricultural
adjectiveˌpriːaɡrɪˈkʌltʃ(ə)r(ə)l
Denoting a people, tribe, or culture that has not developed agriculture as a means of subsistence.
Example sentencesExamples
- Apparently, this unknown male's diet was thought to be low in complex carbohydrates or sugars and therefore he probably lived in the pre-agricultural era.
- The common factors that dominate human evolution and produced homo sapiens were pre-agricultural.
- In those pre-agricultural times when the world population was just a few million, infant mortality was extremely high and only a minority of people survived to the end of their reproductive years.
- Palaeopathological and comparative studies show that health deteriorated in populations that adopted cereal agriculture, returning to pre-agricultural levels only in modern times.
- My article specifically discusses pre-agricultural people who made war and agriculturalists who did not.
Definition of preagricultural in US English:
preagricultural
adjectiveˈprēˌaɡriˈkəlCHərəl
Denoting a people, tribe, or culture that has not developed agriculture as a means of subsistence.
Example sentencesExamples
- My article specifically discusses pre-agricultural people who made war and agriculturalists who did not.
- In those pre-agricultural times when the world population was just a few million, infant mortality was extremely high and only a minority of people survived to the end of their reproductive years.
- Apparently, this unknown male's diet was thought to be low in complex carbohydrates or sugars and therefore he probably lived in the pre-agricultural era.
- The common factors that dominate human evolution and produced homo sapiens were pre-agricultural.
- Palaeopathological and comparative studies show that health deteriorated in populations that adopted cereal agriculture, returning to pre-agricultural levels only in modern times.