English Dictionary

stadial

/ˈsteɪdɪəl/

adj

(geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade. / (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.

The stadial period was marked by intense glacial activity.

意味（1）

(geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.

意味（2）

(archaeology, sociology) 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.