Stadial
/ˈsteɪdɪəl/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to a glacial stade.
- 2 Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
"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."
Example
More 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."
Etymology
From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.