concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: villages

cultural/social anthropology
type: Concept
narrower: villages

proximate communities
type: Concept
narrower: villages

rural areas
type: Concept
narrower: villages

rural communities
type: Concept
narrower: villages

villages
type: Concept
broader: rural communities
broader: rural areas
broader: proximate communities
broader: cultural/social anthropology
definition: From the time that farming became a way of life for most of humankind, beginning about 11,000 years ago, the majority of our predecessors lived in settled villages and continued to do so until about 1950. Of course, actual villages differed greatly across geographic space and within historical time. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Villages]