Stadial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsteɪdɪəl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Stadial is an adjective meaning (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
Meaning
(geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
More Meanings
- (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
- (geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.
Example Sentences
He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming, and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.
Word Forms
- stadials
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stalactic, stational, stagelike, deglacial, glacial, stagnational.
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