They were "nailed down with their investment in domestic animals and a more sedentary medieval European society," he said.

Agricultural production leads to food surpluses, which supports sedentary societies, rapid population growth, and specialization of labor.

Later, the presence of the Olmecs helped to form the first sedentary agrarian societies.

In relation to sedentary societies, the horse gave the nomads the supreme advantage of mobility.

In general they were a herding society which possessed certain military advantages that sedentary societies did not have, particularly mobility.

Humans first domesticated plants for farming, then livestock animals to accompany the resulting sedentary societies.

They have been attributed to arthritic conditions, which afflict sedentary societies.

Throughout the development of sedentary societies, disease spread more rapidly than it had during the time in which hunter-gatherer societies existed.

Wet-rice agriculture led to the development and growth of a sedentary, agrarian society in Japan.

Humans domesticated livestock animals to accompany the resulting sedentary societies.