Meaning of stadial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pertaining to a glacial stade.
2. Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.

Examples

“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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