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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a society or population before the advent of agriculture as a means of subsistence.
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- adjective Before the advent of
agriculture
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Examples
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Anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman and others have noted that for 25,000 years in the preagricultural band societies, 80 percent of their sustenance came from gathering and 20 percent from hunting.
Birute Regine: Ending Hunger Starts With Women Birute Regine 2011
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Anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman and others have noted that for 25,000 years in the preagricultural band societies, 80 percent of their sustenance came from gathering and 20 percent from hunting.
Birute Regine: Ending Hunger Starts With Women Birute Regine 2011
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These creatures, rather sentimentally modeled on popular notions of Native American and African tribes, are presented as being wholly in tune with nature -- as preagricultural hunter-gatherers who subsist on the flesh of the animals they kill by means of their remarkable skill at archery.
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These creatures, rather sentimentally modeled on popular notions of Native American and African tribes, are presented as being wholly in tune with nature -- as preagricultural hunter-gatherers who subsist on the flesh of the animals they kill by means of their remarkable skill at archery.
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The fossil remains tell us that in preagricultural times, human health was excellent.
How to Begin a Diet 2010
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The fossil remains tell us that in preagricultural times, human health was excellent.
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We excluded dairy products, legumes, cereals, grains, potatoes and products containing potassium chloride some foods, such as mayonnaise, carrot juice and domestic meat were not consumed by hunter-gatherers, but contain the general nutritional characteristics of preagricultural foods.
Rapid health improvements with a Paleolithic diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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The aggregate mass moved annually by these activities is also larger than the natural preagricultural weathering rate.
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Binford, following upon this idea of hunter-gatherer affluence, proposed that preagricultural peoples living the good life would live it where it was best, in those optimal ecological zones where the most plentiful supplies of wild plants and animals could be found.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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His survey of 40,000 years of symbolic imagery and ornamentation of preagricultural peoples describes the enormous diversity and distinctive features of prehistoric art from six continents.
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