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- adjective Partly
nomadic .
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The area was already home to small seminomadic groups of farmers who built their mud homes, surrounded them with tall walls, added rooms as the families grew and prospered, then abandoned their settlements when the land grew tired or water grew scarce.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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For the most part the seminomadic farmers ignored one another until circumstance pressed one group against another, triggering a pattern of war and assimilation as old as time.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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For the most part the seminomadic farmers ignored one another until circumstance pressed one group against another, triggering a pattern of war and assimilation as old as time.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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The area was already home to small seminomadic groups of farmers who built their mud homes, surrounded them with tall walls, added rooms as the families grew and prospered, then abandoned their settlements when the land grew tired or water grew scarce.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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The area was already home to small seminomadic groups of farmers who built their mud homes, surrounded them with tall walls, added rooms as the families grew and prospered, then abandoned their settlements when the land grew tired or water grew scarce.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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Their region was formally Ugandan but never fully under Ugandan control, and as a seminomadic people, many Karamojong saw themselves as unincorporated.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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For the most part the seminomadic farmers ignored one another until circumstance pressed one group against another, triggering a pattern of war and assimilation as old as time.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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Small seminomadic microbands remind us of our own proto-evolutionary state.
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Small seminomadic microbands remind us of our own proto-evolutionary state.
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There are about 26,000 Yanomami in the Amazon rain forest, in Venezuela and Brazil, where they subsist as seminomadic hunters and cultivators of crops like manioc and bananas.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008
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