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24 January
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What does She points out that hunter-gatherers living during the time of wolf domestication—14,000 to 29,000 years ago— probably didn’t stay put long enough to create generations’ worth of trash. mean?
What does She points out that hunter-gatherers living during the time of wolf domestication—14,000 to 29,000 years ago— probably didn’t stay put long enough to create generations’ worth of trash. mean?
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@xiao_xue_yi_shang Kind of. It means that several generations (grandparents, parents, children) all helped to create the trash, but it accumulated over a generation. A generation is also a unit of time, about 30 years.
"My family has lived here for 3 generations (about 90 years).
"In a generation, people will have forgotten about this scandal." (about 30 years)
The two meanings are closely intertwined and mean the time required AND the process of a child being born, growing up and giving birth to a new child (one generation). The two meanings are thought of together. You really can't separate them.
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It means that the prehistoric people known as hunter-gatherers, who lived during the time when wolves were being domesticated (this was about 14,000 to 29,000 years ago), were a migratory people, constantly moving their villages around their territory and, therefore, did not stay in one place to produce a lot of discarded items (trash). There was no pile of trash left behind, like is associated with a settlement that stayed in one place for a generation (about 30 years). Therefore, archeologists are not able to examine the trash piles of hunter-gatherers and learn more about them.
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@MetRon oh I got it! Thank you so much, but I feel a little confused about “generations’ worth of trash”, does it mean 5 the trash is piled because a generation creat it?
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- English (US)
@xiao_xue_yi_shang Kind of. It means that several generations (grandparents, parents, children) all helped to create the trash, but it accumulated over a generation. A generation is also a unit of time, about 30 years.
"My family has lived here for 3 generations (about 90 years).
"In a generation, people will have forgotten about this scandal." (about 30 years)
The two meanings are closely intertwined and mean the time required AND the process of a child being born, growing up and giving birth to a new child (one generation). The two meanings are thought of together. You really can't separate them.
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
I got it! Thank you so much! You help me a lot!
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