What does stadial mean?
Stadial means (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade..
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/ˈsteɪdɪəl/ · adjective
(geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade..
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.
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Stadial means (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade..
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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.
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