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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
The meaning of ‘vegetarian’ in the context
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Thus the extraordinary change in technology and cultural tradition that seems to have flourished more than 30,000 years ago in western Asia and the Near East – the so-called Upper Palaeolithic Revolution – may be explained by a dense population. Fed by an increasingly intensive and vegetarian hunter-gathering lifestyle, and with close contact between tribes, the people of south-west Asia were in a position to accumulate more and more skills and technologies than any previous human populations.
I know what ‘vegetarian’ means in the literal sense.
But in this sentence I don’t understand what it means. Its literal sense just seems to conflict with the following word ‘hunter.’
Can you tell me what it refers to?
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Thus the extraordinary change in technology and cultural tradition that seems to have flourished more than 30,000 years ago in western Asia and the Near East – the so-called Upper Palaeolithic Revolution – may be explained by a dense population. Fed by an increasingly intensive and vegetarian hunter-gathering lifestyle, and with close contact between tribes, the people of south-west Asia were in a position to accumulate more and more skills and technologies than any previous human populations.
I know what ‘vegetarian’ means in the literal sense.
But in this sentence I don’t understand what it means. Its literal sense just seems to conflict with the following word ‘hunter.’
Can you tell me what it refers to?
Top answer
It just has the usual meaning: eating plants as a diet. The hunters were doing less hunting and eating more plants.
- It just has the usual meaning: eating plants as a diet.
- The hunters were doing less hunting and eating more plants.
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It just has the usual meaning: eating plants as a diet. The hunters were doing less hunting and eating more plants.
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